Craigmount High School, Edinburgh
Craigmount High School is a secondary school for pupils in Edinburgh.
- Attendance
- 93.3%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Craigmount High School in detail
School in Scotland
Craigmount High School is a local authority school in Scotland. Scottish schools are inspected by Education Scotland rather than Ofsted, and Scotland does not publish school-by-school exam league tables.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 1417 pupils and 13.7 pupils per teacher.
7% of pupils are registered for free school meals, 36% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 7% speak English as an additional language.
1% of its pupils live in Scotland's most deprived fifth of areas and 60% in the least deprived fifth (SIMD).
Attendance was 93.3% in 2024/25, and 17.5% of pupils were persistently absent (missing 10% or more of sessions).
The 2026 school estate survey rated its buildings' condition as good (A) and their suitability for teaching as good (A); the school was 101% full.
97% of pupils who left in 2024/25 went on to a positive destination - further or higher education, training, work or volunteering, against 98% for its "virtual comparator", a matched group of pupils with similar backgrounds from across Scotland.
Craigmount High School in its own words
In its own words: "Craigmount High School is a large comprehensive school located in West Edinburgh. Our projected roll next session is over 1250 and rising. The majority of our pupils come from our five associated primaries: Corstorphine, East Craigs, Fox Covert, Hillwood and Roseburn. In addition, we also receive a high number of placing requests."
Vision and values (school website)
Source: The school's own website
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state secondary schools to Craigmount High School are St Augustine's High School (1.2 miles), Forrester High School (1.3 miles), The Royal High School (1.5 miles) and Wester Hailes High School (2.1 miles).
St Augustine's High SchoolForrester High SchoolThe Royal High SchoolWester Hailes High School
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Edinburgh Gateway Rail Station, about 990 metres away (roughly a 12-minute walk).
3 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is East Craigs Wynd (before), 10 metres away.
Primary schools nearby
The primary schools closest to Craigmount High School are East Craigs Primary School (0.5 miles), Maybury Primary School (0.7 miles), Gylemuir Primary School (0.8 miles) and Corstorphine Primary School (1 mile). In Scotland, secondary places normally follow the catchment area, and each secondary school has associated primary schools; Edinburgh City publishes both.
East Craigs Primary SchoolMaybury Primary SchoolGylemuir Primary SchoolCorstorphine Primary School
Sources: Scottish Government school statistics: pupil census, attendance and absence, school estate, leaver destinations (OGL); NaPTAN (Department for Transport)
Key Information
Scottish GovernmentInspection
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Craigmount High School in May 2024.
- 1.3 Leadership of changevery good
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentgood
- 3.1 Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusiongood
- 3.2 Raising attainment and achievementgood
HMIE grades on a six-point scale: unsatisfactory, weak, satisfactory, good, very good, excellent.
Source: HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland), Open Government Licence.
At a Glance
No
Boarding
No
Nursery
No
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Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 2
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 0
- Children hurt
- 0
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 2 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 0 serious and 2 slight.
No children aged 0 to 15 were among the people hurt.
0 of the collisions happened on a weekday between 08:00 and 09:30 or 14:45 and 16:30, holidays included.
The typical figure for schools in Edinburgh City is 12 (the median across 140 schools, same distance and years).
Serious and slight counts use the Department for Transport's severity adjustment, which allows for changes in how police forces record injuries; they are estimates, rounded to whole numbers. Distances are in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19), Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Primary schools that likely feed into this school, based on proximity
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Questions parents ask about Craigmount High School
When was Craigmount High School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Craigmount High School in May 2024. Inspectors evaluated leadership of change as very good; learning, teaching and assessment as good; ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion as good and raising attainment and achievement as good, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for Craigmount High School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Craigmount High School is no exception: children living in its zone are normally given a place there automatically. Families who want a different school make a placing request to Edinburgh City. Edinburgh City publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Craigmount High School?
If you live in Craigmount High School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Edinburgh City will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Edinburgh City - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Craigmount High School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 2 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 0 serious and 2 slight. No children aged 0 to 15 were among the people hurt. 0 of the collisions happened on a weekday between 08:00 and 09:30 or 14:45 and 16:30, holidays included. The typical figure for schools in Edinburgh City is 12 (the median across 140 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Craigmount High School?
Craigmount High School is at 59 Craigs Road, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH12 8NH.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)