This list of 34 inspection reports or related correspondence from all bodies, including the school itself, has been compiled over a period of two years and represents the entirety of Merchiston Castle School inspection reports that I've been able to locate—from any source—both live websites and internet archives of reorganized (broken URLs) or dead websites (domain name changes due to inspection body name change or change in inspection body). Learn more.
School Inspection Reports
The * at the end of document names denotes that the page is still awaiting BY TOPIC tagging and/or comments are still pending.
- HMIE – Merchiston External Inspection Report (16 May 2000)*
- HMIE – Follow-up to Merchiston External Inspection (25 June 2000)*
- HMIE – Letter to Merchiston Board of Governors (25 June 2002)*
- HMIE – Press Release on Merchiston’s ‘Key Strengths’ (17 June 2003)*
- HMIE – Merchiston External Inspection Report (17 June 2003)*
- Care Commission/HMIE – Merchiston External Inspection Report (25 October 2005)
- Care Commission – Merchiston External Inspection Report (13 March 2007)
- Care Commission – Merchiston External Inspection Report (5 November 2007)*
- Care Commission – Merchiston External Inspection Report (5 March 2008)*
- Care Commission – Merchiston External Inspection Report (31 October 2008)*
- Care Commission – Merchiston External Inspection Report (12 March 2009)*
- Care Commission – Merchiston External Inspection Report (17 June 2010)*
- SCSWIS – Merchiston External Inspection Report (17 May 2011)*
- HMIE – Merchiston External Inspection Report (2-3 June 2011)*
- HMIE – Letter to Merchiston parents (6 September 2011)*
- Office of the Scottish Charity Register – Merchiston Report (17 November 2011)*
- SCSWIS – Merchiston External Inspection Report (13 December 2011)*
- Care Inspectorate – Merchiston External Inspection Report (29 October 2012)*
- Care Inspectorate – Merchiston External Inspection Report (4 September 2013)*
- Education Scotland/Care Inspectorate – Letter to Merchiston parents following October 2014 External Inspection (20 January 2015)*
- Care Inspectorate/Education Scotland – Merchiston External Inspection Report (11 May 2015)*
- Education Scotland – Letter to Merchiston parents (23 June 2015)*
- Care Inspectorate/Education Scotland – Merchiston External Inspection Report (4 December 2015)*
- Education Scotland – Additional Merchiston surveys (1 February 2016)
- Education Scotland – Letter to Merchiston parents (9 February 2016)*
- Care Inspectorate – Merchiston External Inspection Report (30 June 2016)
- Care Inspectorate – Merchiston External Inspection Report (29 September 2016)
- Education Scotland – Letter to Merchiston parents (15 November 2016)*
- Merchiston Castle School – Standards & Quality Self Report 2015-2016 (1 December 2016)*
- Merchiston Castle School – Standards & Quality Self Report 2016-2017 (1 January 2018)*
- Care Inspectorate – Merchiston External Inspection Report (19 September 2019)
- Care Inspectorate – Merchiston External Inspection Report (1 December 2021)
- Care Inspectorate – Merchiston External Inspection Report (25 November 2025)
