Woodlands School, EDINBURGH
Woodlands School is a special school for pupils in Edinburgh.
- Attendance
- 91%
Data last updated 1 Nov 2026
Woodlands School in detail
School in Scotland
Woodlands School is a local authority school in Scotland. Scottish schools are inspected by Education Scotland rather than Ofsted, and Scotland does not publish school-by-school exam league tables.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 86 pupils and 4.9 pupils per teacher.
100% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 9% speak English as an additional language.
17% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 36% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 91% in 2024/25, and 23.8% of pupils were persistently absent (missing 10% or more of sessions).
The 2026 school estate survey rated its buildings' condition as good (A) and their suitability for teaching as good (A).
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other special schools to Woodlands School are Harmeny Education Trust (1.4 miles), Redhall School (2.8 miles), Braidburn Special School (3.5 miles) and Westfield Secondary (Previously Gorgie Mills Special School) (4.1 miles).
Harmeny Education TrustRedhall SchoolBraidburn Special SchoolWestfield Secondary (Previously Gorgie Mills Special School)
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Curriehill Rail Station, about 490 metres away (roughly a 6-minute walk).
8 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Dolphin Avenue (after), 290 metres away.
Sources: Scottish Government school statistics: pupil census, attendance and absence, school estate, leaver destinations (OGL); NaPTAN (Department for Transport)
Key Information
Scottish GovernmentInspection
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Woodlands School in September 2024.
- 1.3 Leadership of changesatisfactory
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentsatisfactory
- 3.1 Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusionsatisfactory
- 3.2 Raising attainment and achievementsatisfactory
HMIE grades on a six-point scale: unsatisfactory, weak, satisfactory, good, very good, excellent.
Source: HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland), Open Government Licence.
At a Glance
No
Boarding
No
Nursery
No
Special Measures
Keep up with Woodlands School
Nurseries
The nearest nurseries and pre-schools to Woodlands School, with their latest published grades:
- The Bees Knees Nursery - Nursery, 0.2 milesCare Inspectorate, 15 May 2026: Good in 2 key questions, Adequate in 2 key questions
- Currie Primary School Nursery Class - Nursery, 0.3 milesCare Inspectorate, 6 June 2024: Very good in 2 key questions, Good in 2 key questions
- Currie Children's Day Nursery - Nursery, 0.5 milesCare Inspectorate, 11 January 2024: Good in 4 key questions
- Nether Currie Primary Early Learning and Childcare - Nursery, 0.7 milesCare Inspectorate, 30 January 2025: Very good in 1 key question, Good in 3 key questions
- Pinocchio's @ Heriot Watt - Nursery, 0.9 milesCare Inspectorate, 27 February 2025: Good in 4 key questions
Getting There
Train Stations
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 7
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 4
- Children hurt
- 2
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 7 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 4 serious and 3 slight.
2 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 2 on foot.
2 of the collisions happened on a weekday between 08:00 and 09:30 or 14:45 and 16:30, holidays included.
The typical figure for schools in Edinburgh City is 12 (the median across 140 schools, same distance and years).
Serious and slight are DfT estimates (severity adjustment). Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19), Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Questions parents ask about Woodlands School
When was Woodlands School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Woodlands School in September 2024. Inspectors evaluated leadership of change as satisfactory; learning, teaching and assessment as satisfactory; ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion as satisfactory and raising attainment and achievement as satisfactory.
How many road collisions happen near Woodlands School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 7 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 4 serious and 3 slight. 2 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 2 on foot. 2 of the collisions happened on a weekday between 08:00 and 09:30 or 14:45 and 16:30, holidays included. The typical figure for schools in Edinburgh City is 12 (the median across 140 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Woodlands School?
Woodlands School is at 36 Dolphin Avenue, Currie, EDINBURGH, EDINBURGH, EH14 5RD.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)