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Firrhill High School Edinburgh - City comprehensive in the south west of Edinburgh. Contains details on business partnership program and detailed prospectus.
Leith Academy - Comprehensive High School at the bottom of Leith Walk. Showcases creative works by school pupils.
Castlebrae Community High School - State comprehensive serving Craigmillar and Niddrie. Includes the Instep project supporting pupils beyond the classroom.
Boroughmuir High School - One of Scotland's first non-fee paying secondaries. Designed and built by a team of pupils.
Liberton High School - Large comprehensive south of the city. Publishes monthly school newsletter online.
Royal High School - Edinburgh's oldest school now located in Barnton, with north west Edinburgh as its catchment area. Features school pictures and newsletter archive.
Gracemount High School - Comprehensive in the south east of Edinburgh. Shows pictures of new school construction and partnership program with European schools.
Trinity Academy - City comprehensive in the Trinity/Newhaven area. Includes a prospectus and "pupil zone".
Portobello High School - East Edinburgh comprehensive and recent Eco Schools award winner. Gives subject overviews and lists recent events.
Wester Hailes Education Centre - High School, Leisure Centre and Adult Education Centre all in one. One of Edinburgh's Community High Schools.
Balerno High School - Comprehensive in the western suburbs. With information on charity concerts and extracurricular activities.
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No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. -- John Barrymore - last words Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. -- Rainer Maria Rilke "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently. -- Chinese Proverb Secondary Schools "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. 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