Ainslie Park High School
Coordinates: 55°58′37″N 3°14′42″W / 55.977°N 3.245°W Ainslie Park High School was a state secondary school in East Pilton, Edinburgh, Scotland.
The school was designed by James Stewart Johnston in the mid 1930s but building work was delayed until after World War II and construction started in 1949. The building was originally to be called Pilton Intermediate School. The first headmaster was Norman Murchison who was also a well known commentator on post war education having delivered the 14th Charles Russell memorial lecture on the subject of 'Some social aspects of modern education' in 1968. He was also involved in numerous other debates including one on the propensity for young Scots to go abroad after the war and the delinquency level of children in early 1950. He also had the honour of becoming the first Citizen Of The Year for the City Of Edinburgh. A lecture theatre was named in his honour at Edinburgh University Kings Buildings Campus. He retired in June 1968 and was succeeded by Norman Chalmers. The school colours were red and gold and the badge was a golden dolphin on a red ground. From its opening in 1948 until 1965 it was a junior secondary school meaning pupils left at the end of their third academic year. If they wished to sit O grade examinations they had to move on to another school. The 1965/66 academic year saw the school attain senior secondary status thereby allowing pupils to remain into fourth year to sit O grade exams. The school subsequently expanded the academic syllabus to offer Higher examinations.
The opening of Craigroyston Community High School and the falling birth rate since the late sixties was the beginning of the end of Ainslie as a viable secondary school and the building became the North Campus for Edinburgh's Telford College. The axe finally falling on Ainslie Park in 1991.
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