Grantown Primary School hailed for ‘stellar performance’ in Sunday Times primary school league table for 2025
A total of 47 primary schools across the Highlands have been ranked in The Sunday Times’ Scottish primary school league table, released today.
Grantown Primary was noted for its ‘stellar performance’ rising 160 points to 350 this year – its best showing since records began in 2016.
It was one of just a handful of schools singled out in the newspaper’s report on the league placings for Scotland.
The school is now ranked 22nd in Highland (609th in Scotland).
Elsewhere in the strath, Aviemore Primary School was placed 42nd in the Highlands (1134th overall).
None of the other schools in Badenoch and Strathspey are recorded in the list of around 1200 schools submitting data.
Lochardil Primary School in Inverness topped the Highlands list, having attained a maximum score of 400 in reading, writing, numeracy, plus combined listening and talking.
It came in at 60th overall in the Scotland-wide list.
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St Catherine's Primary School, Renfrewshire regained its title as the highest ranked in school in Scotland, while Our Lady of Lourdes Primary School, West Lothian was ranked second – despite nearly a third of pupils being deemed ‘very deprived’ in the Scottish Government’s index of multiple deprivation.
Elsewhere, Cawdor Primary School was ranked fifth in Highland, while Glenurquhart Primary, Drumnadrochit finished sixth.
Miller Academy Primary School in Thurso, with a score of 390, was the second highest ranked Highland primary, with Bridgend Primary in Alness coming third.
Mount Pleasant Primary School in Thurso was ranked the lowest in Highland - in 47th place and ranked 1181st overall in Scotland.
The Primary School League Table ranks success at P7 in around 1,200 schools, using the Scottish Government’s Achievement in Curriculum for Excellence Levels (Acel) database.
Examining P7 scores is considered a useful measure of a school's performance at the conclusion of a pupil's academic journey at primary level.
There are over 2000 primary schools in Scotland but more than a third do not submit Acel data each year.
The Acel database ranks the percentage of pupils meeting the four key indicators of reading, writing, numeracy, plus combined listening and talking.
It also counts the percentage of pupils that hail from deprived neighbourhoods, using the government’s Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation.
A record 89 schools scored top marks this year, up from 85 last year and just 52 when the government first began compiling data in 2016/17.
The full searchable table of 1200 participating schools is available at: thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/scottish-school-league-table-2025-best-primary-xfnxxlv22
