Tollcross Primary School catchment area

Argyle Place · Atholl Crescent · Atholl Crescent Lane · Barclay Terrace · Brandfield Street · Bread Street · Brougham Place · Brougham Street · Bruntsfield Place · Cambridge Street · Canning Street · Canning Street Lane · Castle Terrace · Castlehill · Chalmers Street · Coates Crescent · Conference Square · Cornwall Street · Cowgatehead · Crown Square · Dewar Place · Dewar Place Lane · Drumdryan Street · Dunbar Street · Earl Grey Street · East Fountainbridge · Esplanade · Festival Square · Forrest Road · Fountainbridge · Fountainbridge Square · Frederick Street · Freer Gait · Freer Street · Gardner's Crescent · Gillespie Crescent · Gillespie Place · Gilmore Park · Gilmore Place · Glen Street · Glengyle Terrace · Grassmarket · Grindlay Street · Grove Street · Heriot Bridge · Heriot Place · High Riggs · Home Street · Johnston Terrace · Keir Street · Kennedy Walk · King's Stables Road · Lady Lawson Street · Ladyfield · Lauriston Gardens · Lauriston Park · Lauriston Place · Lauriston Street · Leamington Road · Leven Street · Leven Terrace · Lister Square · Lochrin Place · Lochrin Square · Lochrin Terrace · Lonsdale Terrace · Lothian Road · Lower Gilmore Place · Manor Place · Marchmont Road · McCrae's Place · McEwan Square · Melville Drive · Middle Meadow Walk · Morrison Link · Morrison Street · Nightingale Way · North Meadow Walk · Panmure Place · Ponton Street · Port Hamilton · Portsburgh Square · Princes Street · Queensferry Street · Ramsay Lane · Riego Street · Rope Walk · Rosebank Cottages · Rosemount Buildings · Rutland Court · Rutland Place · Rutland Square · Rutland Street · Saint David's Terrace · Semple Street · Shandwick Place · Simpson Loan · Spittal Street · St David's Place · Stafford Street · Tarvit Street · Teviot Place · The Mound · Thornybauk · Torphichen Street · Union Path · Upper Grove Place · Valleyfield Street · West Approach Road · West Bow · West Maitland Street · West Port · West Tollcross

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 Tollcross Primary School catchment include Argyle Place, Atholl Crescent, Atholl Crescent Lane, Barclay Terrace, Brandfield Street, Bread Street, Brougham Place and Brougham Street — 113 streets in total, all listed on this page. The catchment covers Tollcross and Fountainbridge. 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 Tollcross 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.