Broughton High School is a secondary school located in the north of Edinburgh, Scotland. In 2009, the building at Inverleith was replaced with a building funded by a public–private partnership. The school is currently situated next to Inverleith Park, in the Stockbridge neighbourhood of Edinburgh but was formerly in Broughton, where the poet Hugh MacDiarmid was a pupil.
Description
The school was recently named in Tatlers list of top state schools.
The school is home to a specialised music department: the City of Edinburgh Music School which nearly faced closure in 2018. Along with the music school Broughton has a specialist dance department. Broughton is also one of seven schools in Scotland chosen by the Scottish Football Association to support talented young footballers with extra coaching. As of 2018, the dedicated coach for the young players at Broughton is former Hibernian player Keith Wright.
The school's motto Fortiter et Recte is Latin for 'strongly and rightly'.
The Senior Leadership Team consists of the Headteacher (John J. Wilson) and three Deputy Headteachers (L.Evans, S.Bennett and S.Wallace). The school also has a Director of Music (T.Morris) and a Business Manager (A.Sansom-Parnell).
HMI(E) report
In the last report, issued in September 2011, Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education concluded that areas of strength were the school's leadership, care and welfare and specialist provisions. It stated that development was required on areas such as overall achievement, expectations and consistency.
In February 2014, the school received a follow-up report which concluded that improvements had been made. The report stated that S4-S6 attainment in 2013 was the highest in the last three years.
Notable alumni
Martyn Bennett, bagpiper
Alan Bold, Critic and Poet
William Bosi, professional rock climber
Mary Fee, Scottish Labour Party politician
Shirley Manson, lead singer of Garbage
Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish Poet
Sean McKirdy, footballer
David Murray, Entrepreneur, Scottish Businessman
Angus Robertson SNP politician
Sean Smith, Lord Harrower, judge of the Supreme Courts
Tommy Smith, saxophonist, composer
Emma Watson, Footballer,