Gracemount High School

Gracemount High School is a non-denominational six-year comprehensive secondary school serving south-east Edinburgh, Scotland. It has a current roll of over 600 pupils and around 80 staff.

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Email: admin@gracemount.edin.sch.uk
Type: School
Description: secondary school in City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Postal code: EH16 6TZ

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Ellen’s Glen House and Gilmerton Cove.

Ellen’s Glen House

Hospital

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Ellen's Glen Community Hospital, originally Ellen's Glen House, is a community-based hospital which was built to provide services to elderly and mentally ill patients in Liberton, Edinburgh, Scotland. Ellen’s Glen House is situated 1,900 feet north of Gracemount High School.

Gilmerton Cove

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Gilmerton Cove is a series of underground passageways and chambers hand-carved from sandstone located beneath the streets of Gilmerton, an ex-mining village, now a southeastern suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland. Gilmerton Cove is situated 3,900 feet east of Gracemount High School.

Liberton Hospital

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Liberton Hospital was a facility for geriatric medicine on Lasswade Road in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was managed by NHS Lothian. It closed at the end of December 2025. Intermediate care and outpatient services are now based at Ellen's Glen Community Hospital. Liberton Hospital is situated 1,600 feet north of Gracemount High School.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kaimes and Gilmerton.

Kaimes

Neighborhood

Kaimes is an area of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. Centred on the Kaimes junction which nowadays links to Straiton Junction of the Edinburgh City Bypass, it is south of Alnwickhill, east of Mortonhall, north of Heritage Grange and Burdiehouse and west of Gracemount and Southhouse.

Gilmerton

Suburb

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Gilmerton is a suburb of Edinburgh, about 4 miles southeast of the city centre. The toponym "Gilmerton" is derived from a combination of Scottish Gaelic: Gille-Moire– a personal name and later surname meaning "Servant of Mary", from which comes the first element, "Gilmer", – and Old English: ton meaning "settlement" or "farmstead".

Moredun

Suburb

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Moredun is a district in the south-east of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. It is east of Liberton, while Craigour is situated just to its north. The estate of Gut-tres or Goodtrees was the family home of James Stewart but it was renamed Moredun House in 1769 by the new owner, David Stuart Moncrieff, in recognition of a hill on his Perthshire estate.