Who topped the list for Moray in the Sunday Times primary school league table for 2025?

Burghead Primary School ranked highest in a list Moray schools scored in the latest Sunday Times Scottish schools league table, released today.

With a ‘near perfect’ score of 390, Burghead was ranked 142nd overall across Scotland, in a list of around 1200 schools scored.

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In close quarters were Keith Primary and Greenwards Primary in Elgin, who each scored 380, the former serving a higher percentage of deprived or very deprived pupils, with 40% of 325 roll to finish second in the Moray stakes.

A total of 21 schools were ranked from the Moray area.

Applegrove Primary School finished bottom of the Moray pack, ranked 1165th in Scotland overall, with a score of 250.

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.

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

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