James Gillespie's High School catchment area

Abbey Mount · Abbey Strand · Abbeyhill · Abbeyhill Crescent · Alfred Place · Arden Street · Argyle Park Terrace · Argyle Place · Ascham Court · Atholl Crescent · Atholl Crescent Lane · Bank Street · Barclay Terrace · Beaufort Road · Bernard Terrace · Blacket Avenue · Blacket Place · Blackford Avenue · Blackford Bank · Blackford Gate · Blackford Hill Grove · Blackford Hill Rise · Blackford Hill View · Blackford Road · Blackfriars Street · Blackwood Crescent · Blair Street · Boroughloch · Bowmont Place · Brandfield Street · Bread Street · Briery Bauks · Bright's Crescent · Brighton Street · Bristo Place · Brougham Place · Brougham Street · Brown Street · Brown's Close · Bruntsfield Crescent · Bruntsfield Place · Buccleuch Place · Buccleuch Place Lane · Buccleuch Street · Buccleuch Terrace · Burgess Terrace · Calton Road · Cambridge Street · Cameron Park · Cameron Toll · Campbell's Close · Canaan Lane · Candlemaker Row · Canning Street · Canning Street Lane · Canongate · Castle Terrace · Castlehill · Causewayside · Chalmers Crescent · Chalmers Street · Chambers Street · Chapel Street · Charles Street · Charlesfield · Charterhall Grove · Charterhall Road · Clerk Street · Clinton Road · Cluny Gardens · Coates Crescent · Cobden Crescent · Cobden Road · Cockburn Street · Conference Square · Cornwall Street · Cowan's Close · Cowgate · Cowgatehead · Craigmillar Park · Cranston Street · Crawfurd Road · Crichton Street · Crown Square · Cumin Place · Dalkeith Road · Dalrymple Crescent · Davie Street · Dewar Place · Dewar Place Lane · Dick Place · Drumdryan Street · Drummond Street · Dryden Place · Duddingston Low Road · Dumbiedykes Road · Dunbar Street · Duncan Street · Earl Grey Street · East Adam Street · East Champanyie · East Crosscauseway · East Fountainbridge · East Market Street · East Mayfield · East Newington Place · East Parkside · East Preston Street · East Savile Road · East Sciennes Street · East Suffolk Road · Eden Terrace · Edinburgh Labyrinth · Esplanade · Esslemont Road · Eva Place · Festival Square · Findhorn Place · Fingal Place · Forbes Street · Forrest Road · Fountainbridge · Fountainbridge Square · Fountainhall Road · Frederick Street · Freer Gait · Freer Street · Gardner's Crescent · George IV Bridge · George Square · George Square Lane · Gibb's Entry · Gifford Park · Gillespie Crescent · Gillespie Place · Gilmore Park · Gilmore Place · Gilmour Road · Gilmour Street · Gladstone Court · Gladstone Terrace · Glen Street · Glengyle Terrace · Glenisla Gardens · Glenorchy Terrace · Gordon Terrace · Granby Road · Grange Crescent · Grange Loan · Grange Loan Gardens · Grange Road · Grange Terrace · Grassmarket · Greenhill Place · Greenhill Terrace · Greyfriars Place · Grindlay Street · Grove Street · Guthrie Street · Haddon's Court · Hamilton's Folly Mews · Hardwell Close · Hatton Place · Heriot Bridge · Heriot Place · Hermits Croft · High Riggs · High School Wynd · High School Yards · High Street · Hill Place · Hill Square · Holyrood Gait · Holyrood Park Road · Holyrood Road · Holyrood Roundabout · Home Street · Hope Park Crescent · Hope Park Terrace · Hope Terrace · Horse Wynd · Howden Street · Hunter Square · Hutton Road · Infirmary Street · James Gall Wynd · James' Court · Jeffrey Street · Johnston Terrace · Keir Street · Kennedy Walk · Kilgraston Road · King's Stables Road · Lady Lawson Street · Ladyfield · Ladysmith Road · Langton Road · Lauder Road · Lauderdale Street · Lauriston Gardens · Lauriston Park · Lauriston Place · Lauriston Street · Lawnmarket · Leamington Road · Leith Street · Leven Street · Leven Terrace · Lindsay Place · Lister Square · Livingstone Place · Lochend Close · Lochrin Place · Lochrin Square · Lochrin Terrace · Lonsdale Terrace · Lothian Road · Lothian Street · Lower Gilmore Place · Lussielaw Road · Lutton Place · Lygon Road · Macdowall Road · Makars' Court · Mall Roundabout · Manor Place · Mansionhouse Road · Marchhall Crescent · Marchhall Place · Marchhall Road · Marchmont Crescent · Marchmont Road · Marchmont Street · Market Street · Marshall Street · Maurice Place · Mayfield Gardens · Mayfield Road · Mayfield Terrace · McCrae's Place · McEwan Square · McLaren Road · Meadow Lane · Meadow Place · Melville Drive · Melville Terrace · Mentone Gardens · Mentone Terrace · Merchant Street · Middle Meadow Walk · Middleby Street · Millerfield Place · Milne's Court · Minto Street · Moncrieff Terrace · Monkwood Court · Montague Street · Morrison Link · Morrison Street · Mortonhall Road · Moston Terrace · Mound Place · Mount Grange · New Arthur Place · New College Courtyard · New John's Place · New Street · Newbattle Terrace · Newington Road · Nicolson Square · Nicolson Street · Niddry Street · Nightingale Way · North Bank Street · North Bridge · North Drive · North Meadow Walk · Observatory Green · Observatory Road · Old Tolbooth Wynd · Oswald Road · Oxford Street · Palmerston Road · Panmure Place · Parkside Street · Parkside Terrace · Parliament Square · Pavilion Crescent · Peel Terrace · Pitsligo Road · Pleasance · Ponton Street · Port Hamilton · Portsburgh Square · Potterrow · Prestonfield Avenue · Prestonfield Crescent · Prestonfield Gardens · Priestfield Road · Priestfield Road North · Princes Street · Queen's Crescent · Queen's Drive · Queensferry Street · Ramsay Garden · Ramsay Lane · Rankeillor Street · Rankin Avenue · Rankin Drive · Rankin Road · Ratcliffe Terrace · Regent Road · Regent Terrace · Relugas Gardens · Relugas Place · Relugas Road · Richmond Place · Riego Street · Rillbank Crescent · Rillbank Terrace · Rope Walk · Rosebank Cottages · Rosemount Buildings · Roseneath Place · Roseneath Street · Roseneath Terrace · Ross Gardens · Ross Place · Roxburgh Court · Roxburgh Place · Roxburgh Street · Rutland Court · Rutland Place · Rutland Square · Rutland Street · Saint David's Terrace · Salisbury Place · Salisbury Road · Savile Place · Savile Terrace · Sciennes · Sciennes Gardens · Sciennes Hill Place · Sciennes House Place · Sciennes Place · Sciennes Road · Semple Street · Seton Place · Shandwick Place · Sibbald Walk · Simon Square · Simpson Loan · South Bridge · South Clerk Street · South College Street · South Gray Street · South Lauder Road · South Oswald Road · South Oxford Street · South St David Street · Spence Street · Spittal Street · Spittalfield Crescent · Spottiswoode Road · Spottiswoode Street · St Alban's Road · St Catherine's Place · St Crispin's Court · St David's Place · St Giles' Street · St John Street · St John's Hill · St Leonard's Bank · St Leonard's Hill · St Leonard's Lane · St Leonard's Street · St Margaret's Place · St Margaret's Road · St Mary's Street · St Patrick Square · St Patrick Street · St Thomas Road · Stafford Street · Strathearn Place · Strathearn Road · Strathfillan Road · Suffolk Road · Summerhall · Summerhall Place · Summerhall Square · Sylvan Place · Tantallon Place · Tarvit Street · Terrars Croft · Teviot Place · The Mound · Thirlestane Lane · Thirlestane Road · Thornybauk · Torphichen Street · Tron Square · Trotter Haugh · Union Path · Upper Bow · Upper Gray Street · Upper Grove Place · Valleyfield Street · Ventnor Place · Ventnor Terrace · Victoria Street · Viewcraig Gardens · Viewcraig Street · Warrender Park Crescent · Warrender Park Road · Warrender Park Terrace · Waterloo Place · Watertoun Road · Waverley Bridge · West Adam Street · West Approach Road · West Bow · West College Street · West Crosscauseway · West Mains Road · West Maitland Street · West Mayfield · West Newington Place · West Nicolson Street · West Port · West Powburn · West Preston Street · West Relugas Road · West Richmond Street · West Savile Gardens · West Savile Road · West Savile Terrace · West Tollcross · Whitehouse Loan · Whitehouse Terrace · Wilton Road · Windmill Street · Wright's Houses

No — Edinburgh catchments give priority for admission, not a guarantee. Catchment children are placed first, but at oversubscribed schools even catchment children can be turned down after siblings and exceptional cases. Most primaries do place all catchment children; the council's official wording is that they cannot always guarantee a place at one of your catchment schools.

Check by full address — not just postcode — using the City of Edinburgh Council's interactive catchment map at edinburgh.gov.uk/catchmentmap. Two flats on the same street can fall in different catchments, so always confirm before signing a lease. If you're cutting it close to a boundary, contact the council's school admissions team directly.

Streets in James Gillespie's High School catchment include Abbey Mount, Abbey Strand, Abbeyhill, Abbeyhill Crescent, Alfred Place, Arden Street, Argyle Park Terrace and Argyle Place — 442 streets in total, all listed on this page. The catchment covers Old Town, Newington, Marchmont, Bruntsfield, Sciennes and Grange. Boundary lines can cut through individual streets, so for an address right on the edge confirm by full postcode at edinburgh.gov.uk/catchmentmap.

James Gillespie's Primary School, Preston Street Primary School, Royal Mile Primary School, Sciennes Primary School and Tollcross Primary School feed into James Gillespie's High School. Each of these primary catchments sits within (or mostly within) the James Gillespie's High School secondary catchment. Children moving from these primaries typically continue to James Gillespie's High School for S1 without a placing request; children at primaries outside this list would normally need to apply via a placing request.

Yes — out-of-catchment applications are called placing requests and are submitted to the council each year. Placing requests are considered only after all catchment children have been placed. For high-demand schools, placing requests from outside the catchment are usually unsuccessful in the most oversubscribed year groups. Apply via edinburgh.gov.uk/schools/school-placing-requests.