The school was designed by James Stewart Johnston in the mid-1930s, but building work was delayed until after World War II and construction started in 1949.

[3] He was also involved in numerous other debates, including on the propensity for young Scots to go abroad after the war[4] and on the delinquency level of children in early 1950.

[6] A full planning application to develop the site was submitted by Miller Homes on 21 March 2007 and was granted by the City of Edinburgh Council.

[8] On 21–22 November 1971 five members of a mountaineering club at Ainslie Park School and an 18-year-old trainee instructor from Newcastle-under-Lyme died in a blizzard while trying to walk from Cairn Gorm to Corrour Bothy.

The members of the party who died were: Sheila Sunderland the local instructor, Carol Bertram (aged 16), Susan Byrne (15), Lorraine Dick (15), William Kerr (15) and Diane Dudgeon (15).