Boroughmuir High School


Boroughmuir High School is a non-denominational secondary school in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was founded in 1904, and located at 22–24 Warrender Park Crescent, overlooking Bruntsfield Links, in a building designed by John Alexander Carfrae, then in a site at 26 Viewforth, also designed by Carfrae, from 1913 to 2018.
Its catchment area is in the south side of the city, and includes Bruntsfield, Buckstone, and South Morningside Primary Schools. In 2011 Boroughmuir's exam results were the fourth best state school results in Scotland. Boroughmuir High School was also awarded the high achievement of State School of the Year in November 2012, by the Sunday Times Newspaper. "Vassals of the Muir" is the official Boroughmuir school song.

Sport

Boroughmuir High School acquired the team Boroughmuir RFC in 1913, which is based at the Meggetland Sports Complex, as well as operating U15 and U18 clubs as after-school activities.

Uniform

Pupils are required to wear the school tie: it has green and black stripes for students in S1 to S4 and is green with the crest in S5 and S6. A blazer was introduced in 2015 and made obligatory in 2016.

Houses

Each pupil is assigned to a house named after streets surrounding the school – Leamington, Viewforth, Hartington, Westhall and Montpelier.. The houses Bruntsfield and Montpelier were removed by David Dempster in 2013 and their remaining members were distributed among the remaining houses. Montpelier was recreated in 2018 to cope with an influx of new pupils, however this addition to the school was rather controversial and received a lot of backlash from pupils and staff. This resulted in pupils creating a petition to undo the addition of the house, this petition received 200+ signatures but ultimately failed after a meeting with head teacher David Dempster.

Notable alumni