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The Royal High School moved to its current site at Barnton in 1968, vacating the Old Royal High School buildings. In 1973 it became a co-educational state comprehensive . The school's premises underwent extensive refurbishment between 2001 and 2003, funded by a £10 million public-private partnership project with Amey plc .
The following is a partial list of articles for state schools in the unitary council areas of Aberdeen City, Dundee City, City of Edinburgh and Glasgow City in Scotland, United Kingdom. You may also find Category:Schools in Scotland of use to find a particular school.
List of schools in Edinburgh is a list of schools in the City of Edinburgh council area of Scotland. It lists schools both within Edinburgh itself, and in outlying villages within the local government boundary.
Although the Royal High School long enjoyed a near monopoly on boys' education among the Edinburgh burgesses and county gentry, roll lists before the mid eighteenth century are incomplete. Consequently, attendance by the mathematician John Napier (1550–1617) and the philosopher David Hume (1711–1776) is unconfirmed and may be legend.
The Royal Burgess Golfing Society, one of the oldest golf societies in the world with a clubhouse dating from 1896. Cargilfield Preparatory School lies to the north. The most notable landmark is the former Barnton Hotel at the junction of Whitehouse Loan and Queensferry Road which dates from 1895 and was converted to flats in 2016.
The Old Royal High School, also known as New Parliament House, is a 19th-century neoclassical building on Calton Hill in the city of Edinburgh. The building was constructed for the use of the city's Royal High School , and gained its alternative name as a result of a proposal in the 1970s for it to house a devolved Scottish Assembly .
John Marshall, MA, LLD. Vivas Schola Regia, officially Scholae Regiae Edinensis Carmen, is the song of the Royal High School, Edinburgh.The Latin lyrics were written by the Rector, Dr. John Marshall, in 1895, and set to music by Sir Alexander Mackenzie, a former pupil of the school. [1]
People educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh (1 C, 340 P) Pages in category "Royal High School, Edinburgh" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.