School report
Cargilfield School
Scotland · Ages 3–13 · Day & boarding · 300 pupils
At a glance
Latest income
PrefectReserves
PrefectFee dependency
PrefectFinancial security
ScholarInspection
A colour summarising the school's most recent inspection outcome. Different inspectorates (ISI, Ofsted, and the Scottish and Welsh bodies) use different systems, so results from different inspectorates aren't directly comparable.Green
Education Scotland · 2023-09-12
Setting
Setting
11-acre campus enclosed within the suburban residential district of Cramond in North-West Edinburgh.
Getting there
Inspection & safeguarding
Latest outcome: QIs very good to excellent
- Regulator
- Education Scotland
- Band
- Green
- Report date
- 2023-09-12
- Report age
- 2.8 years
Inspectorates use different scales, so bands are shown only within their own regime, never cross-mapped.
Fees
Fees
What Cargilfield School publishes for 2025/26 — the advertised price, before any bursary or scholarship.
| Day | Boarding | |
|---|---|---|
| Prep | £26,070 /yr ≈ £8,690/term | — |
Termly figures are the annual fee ÷ 3. Source: the school's fee page ↗
Fee history
Day fees have risen +56.4% since 2021/22 — from £17,250 to £26,985 in 2026/27. Latest figure includes VAT. See the full six-year trend below.
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See plans →Finances
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See plans →Peer-group benchmarking
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See plans →Curriculum & activities
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See plans →Language & character
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See plans →Leaver destinations
Where leavers go
Senior schools this prep sends its pupils to.
Leavers have gone on to 14 named senior schools.
Including Cheltenham Ladies' College, Downe House, Edinburgh Academy and more.
Year 8/13+ · latest 2022
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See plans →Recruitment & staffing
Recruitment & staffing
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See plans →Catchment
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See plans →Data & sources
Where these figures come from, and how complete they are.
- Financial source
- OSCR (Scotland)
- Detail level
- Parsed from full accounts
- Latest accounts
- 2025-07-31
- Years on record
- 5
- Accounts age
- 10 months
- Pupil numbers
- 300 (website)
- Components
- Summary figures only (OSCR)
- Entity scope
- This school
Pupil–teacher ratio: not published — independent schools aren’t in the DfE workforce census, and filed accounts don’t separate teaching staff.
Capital trend: only one year of capital spend is on record, so a multi-year under-investment signal can’t be computed yet.
Computed 2026-06-20 · pipeline ct-derived-1.0.0. Indicators, not verdicts — each is traceable to its source.
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