| Administrative History | Inverurie Market Place School was originally the parish school, built in 1862. A newspaper report on the 1895 extension to Market Place School describes two earliery parish schools: the earliest standing "somewhere between Provost Watson's and the present Town Hall … an unpretentious thatched building, surround by gutter and filth and rank vegetation". The next parish school was at the east end of the old Town Hall (i.e. on the High Street opposite Old Station Road). By 1843, the school apparently consisted of two rooms, each holding 90 pupils.
Close by, set back from the West High Street, the Free Church had founded a school in 1843, West High Street School. Both schools were transferred to the Inverurie School Board in 1873. Various alterations were made to the buildings of both schools in the late 19th century, until, in 1895, the two schools were amalgamated and the Market Place School extended to include three extra classrooms for secondary level pupils. West High Street School housed the infant and junior classes, becoming known as West High Street Infant School, and Market Place housed older classes. In 1905 the infants were transferred to Market Plact School.
A Public School was built in 1902, and shared a headmaster with the Market Place Schools until 1921.
The Market Place School was badly damaged by a fire in 1908, and was rebuilt in 1910.
At some point in the early 20th century Market Place School became known as Inverurie Infant School, reverting to its original title in 1954/5. The school received full primary status on the 28th October 1975, with older primary classes relocating to Inverurie Market Place and the new Kellands School after the Inverurie Academy primary department closed. .
Plans to add two additional classrooms and a hall (which could be divided to use as three further classrooms) were approved by the County Council of Aberdeen Education Committee in 1951 and opened in 1955. Additional temporary hutted classrooms were erected in the mid 1960s.
The school closed in 2017 and pupils transferred to the town's new Uryside Primary |