Royal Mile Primary School catchment area

Abbey Mount · Abbey Strand · Abbeyhill · Abbeyhill Crescent · Bank Street · Blackfriars Street · Blair Street · Bowmont Place · Briery Bauks · Brighton Street · Bristo Place · Brown Street · Brown's Close · Calton Road · Campbell's Close · Candlemaker Row · Canongate · Castlehill · Chambers Street · Cockburn Street · Cowgate · Cowgatehead · Cranston Street · Davie Street · Drummond Street · Dumbiedykes Road · East Adam Street · East Crosscauseway · East Market Street · Esplanade · Forrest Road · George IV Bridge · Gibb's Entry · Gilmour Street · Gladstone Court · Grassmarket · Greyfriars Place · Guthrie Street · Haddon's Court · Hardwell Close · High School Wynd · High School Yards · High Street · Hill Place · Hill Square · Holyrood Gait · Holyrood Road · Holyrood Roundabout · Horse Wynd · Howden Street · Hunter Square · Hutton Road · Infirmary Street · James' Court · Jeffrey Street · Johnston Terrace · Lawnmarket · Leith Street · Lindsay Place · Lochend Close · Lothian Street · Makars' Court · Mall Roundabout · Market Street · Marshall Street · Merchant Street · Milne's Court · Mound Place · New Arthur Place · New College Courtyard · New Street · Nicolson Square · Nicolson Street · Niddry Street · North Bank Street · North Bridge · North Drive · Old Tolbooth Wynd · Parliament Square · Pleasance · Potterrow · Princes Street · Queen's Drive · Ramsay Garden · Ramsay Lane · Regent Road · Regent Terrace · Richmond Place · Roxburgh Court · Roxburgh Place · Roxburgh Street · Sibbald Walk · Simon Square · South Bridge · South College Street · South St David Street · St Giles' Street · St John Street · St John's Hill · St Leonard's Street · St Mary's Street · Teviot Place · The Mound · Tron Square · Upper Bow · Victoria Street · Viewcraig Gardens · Viewcraig Street · Waterloo Place · Waverley Bridge · West Adam Street · West Bow · West College Street · West Richmond Street

No — Edinburgh catchments give priority for admission, not a guarantee. Catchment children are placed first, but at oversubscribed schools even catchment children can be turned down after siblings and exceptional cases. Most primaries do place all catchment children; the council's official wording is that they cannot always guarantee a place at one of your catchment schools.

Check by full address — not just postcode — using the City of Edinburgh Council's interactive catchment map at edinburgh.gov.uk/catchmentmap. Two flats on the same street can fall in different catchments, so always confirm before signing a lease. If you're cutting it close to a boundary, contact the council's school admissions team directly.

Streets in Royal Mile Primary School catchment include Abbey Mount, Abbey Strand, Abbeyhill, Abbeyhill Crescent, Bank Street, Blackfriars Street, Blair Street and Bowmont Place — 114 streets in total, all listed on this page. The catchment covers Old Town. Boundary lines can cut through individual streets, so for an address right on the edge confirm by full postcode at edinburgh.gov.uk/catchmentmap.

Children at Royal Mile Primary School typically progress to James Gillespie's High School at secondary. Edinburgh's feeder relationships follow catchment overlap rather than formal partnership — each primary catchment sits within (or mostly within) one secondary catchment. Boundaries don't always align perfectly, so a placing request is sometimes needed for siblings to stay together at secondary.

Yes — out-of-catchment applications are called placing requests and are submitted to the council each year. Placing requests are considered only after all catchment children have been placed. For high-demand schools, placing requests from outside the catchment are usually unsuccessful in the most oversubscribed year groups. Apply via edinburgh.gov.uk/schools/school-placing-requests.