Cargilfield Preparatory School | |
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Address | |
45 Gamekeeper's Road , EH4 6HU Scotland | |
Coordinates | 55°58′11″N 3°18′00″W / 55.96971°N 3.30004°W |
Information | |
Type | Preparatory school Day & Boarding School |
Motto | Deo Custode ("With God as [a] guardian") |
Religious affiliation(s) | Church of Scotland |
Established | 1873 |
Founder | Rev Daniel Charles Darnell[1] |
Headmaster | Rob Taylor |
Gender | Co-educational |
Age | 3 to 13 |
Enrolment | 322 |
Houses | Bruce, Graham, Stuart, Wallace, |
Colour(s) | Red, Navy blue, White |
Website | http://www.cargilfield.com/ |
Listed Building – Category B | |
Official name | 45 Gamekeeper’s Road, Cargilfield School, Including Chapel, Nursery, Cricket Pavilion, Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and Gates[2] |
Designated | 24 February 1997[2] |
Reference no. | LB43929[2] |
Cargilfield Preparatory School is a Scottish private co-educational boarding and prep school in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Cargilfield was founded in 1873 by Rev Daniel Charles Darnell[3] an Episcopalian and former master at Rugby School[4] and was the first independent preparatory school in Scotland. Originally, the school was located at Cargilfield, a large villa on South Trinity Road in the Trinity area of Edinburgh. It was sometimes referred to as Cargilfield Trinity School. It largely served as a feeder school to nearby Fettes College.
In 1899, the school relocated to Barnton.[1]
In the period 2003–2012, the headmaster was John Elder. Among the changes he made to the school was the abolition of homework.[5]
In 2014, the UK government named the school in a list of 25 UK employers which had failed to pay workers the national minimum wage, for underpaying an artist in residence by £3,739.[6] The school responded that it had rectified this situation as soon as it was made aware of it, and apologised.[7]
The school has reached the finals of the UKMT Team Mathematics Challenge competition in five consecutive years (2013,[8] 2014, [9] 2015, [10] 2016, and [11] 2017.[12] )