[3] In November 1963, the Dundee Sub-Works Committee asked the Town Clerk to negotiate for the purchase of 12 acres of ground at Craigie Home Farm south as a site for a new secondary school.

Craigie High School first opened its doors to pupils on 20 August 1970, although some building work continued until the official opening on 11 December 1970 by Sir Garnet Wilson, former Lord Provost of Dundee and whom the street entrance of the school, Garnet Terrace, was named for.

[4] As of 2019, Dundee City Council were considered replacing Craigie High and nearby Braeview Academy with a new school on the site of the former St. Saviour's High School, involving some of Craigie's pupils transferring to Grove Academy The merger was approved in 2021.

The houses are named Isla, Lomond, Skye and Nevis and are used with a points system during educational and physical competitions.

Tam Baillie, Scotland's RRSA commissioner, presented the award to staff and pupils at the school.