Cademuir International School was a specialist school at
Moniaive
Moniaive ( 'monny-IVE'; , ''"The Holy Moor"'') is a village in the Parish of Glencairn, in Dumfries and Galloway, southwest Scotland. It stands on the Cairn and Dalwhat Waters, north-west of the town of Dumfries. Moniaive has been named best o ...
in
Dumfries and Galloway
Dumfries and Galloway (; ) is one of the 32 unitary council areas of Scotland, located in the western part of the Southern Uplands. It is bordered by East Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, and South Lanarkshire to the north; Scottish Borders to the no ...
, Scotland.
The school, founded by Robert Mulvey in 1990, was created to serve high ability learners and underachievers with high potential.
Latterly based at
Crawfordton House
Crawfordton House is a category B listed 19th-century country house, situated close to Moniaive in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. It was operated as Crawfordton School in the second half of the 20th century.
History
Crawfordton Tower was a tower house ...
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Moniaive
Moniaive ( 'monny-IVE'; , ''"The Holy Moor"'') is a village in the Parish of Glencairn, in Dumfries and Galloway, southwest Scotland. It stands on the Cairn and Dalwhat Waters, north-west of the town of Dumfries. Moniaive has been named best o ...
, a listed building, it previously operated from near
Peebles
Peebles () is a town in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. It was historically a royal burgh and the county town of Peeblesshire. According to the United Kingdom census, 2011, 2011 census, the population was 8,376 and the estimated population in ...
.
In 2002, the school was ranked second of 418 schools in Scotland for
Higher Grade
In the Scottish secondary education system, the Higher () is one of the national school-leaving certificate exams and university entrance qualifications of the Scottish Qualifications Certificate (SQC) offered by the Scottish Qualification ...
results.
Following controversial stories in the tabloid press, in 2004, an
HMI report criticised the school, "particularly in the care and welfare areas of child protection, vetting of staff and restraint". A follow-up inspection criticised a "lack of stable and effective strategic leadership" on 13 September 2005.
In September 2006 the school went out of business due to financial difficulties. Its roll had dropped from 100 pupils to 34 at the time of its closure.
The school buildings were then placed on the market with an asking price of £1.3 million.
See also
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Blairmore School
Blairmore School was an independent school (UK), independent boarding preparatory school (United Kingdom), preparatory school in Glass, Huntly, Glass near Huntly, Aberdeenshire until its closure in 1993. The site is now owned and used by a Christi ...
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Oxenfoord Castle School
Oxenfoord Castle School was a girls' private boarding school, based at Oxenfoord Castle
Oxenfoord Castle is a country house in Midlothian, Scotland. It is located north of Pathhead, Midlothian, and south-east of Dalkeith, above the River Tyne ...
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Rannoch School
Rannoch School was a private boarding school, located on the south shore of Loch Rannoch in Perth and Kinross, Scotland on the Dall Estate, from Kinloch Rannoch. Dall House served as the main school building and a boarding house.
It was est ...
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St Margaret's School, Edinburgh
St. Margaret's School was an independent school in the Newington area of Edinburgh, Scotland. The curriculum was based on the Scottish education system. The school was one of three all-girls, private, fee-paying schools based in the Edinburg ...
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Educational institutions established in 1990
Defunct boarding schools in Scotland
Defunct schools in Dumfries and Galloway
1990 establishments in Scotland
2006 disestablishments in Scotland
Educational institutions disestablished in 2006
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