[2] The school is currently situated next to Inverleith Park, in the Stockbridge neighbourhood of Edinburgh but was formerly in Broughton, where the poet Hugh MacDiarmid was a pupil.

[6] In In May 2024 Angus Robertson MSP for Edinburgh Central visited Broughton High School.

On 28th September the Headteacher was invited as a Local Hero to the 25th Anniversary of the opening of the Scottish Parliament.

[1] In the last report, issued in September 2011, Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education concluded that areas of strength were the school's leadership, care and welfare and specialist provisions.

[7] In February 2014, the school received a follow-up report which concluded that improvements had been made.