It is operated by City of Edinburgh Council, the local education authority.

[1][2] League tables, published in 2019, ranking the percentage of pupils attaining five or more awards at SCQF Level 6 (Scottish Higher) in 2019, placed Gracemount High at 331 out of 339 schools with 13 per cent; the Scottish Government benchmark figure for GHS was 22.

Before the original school building closed and was then demolished in 2003, ex-teaching staff and students gathered for a party to mark the end of the original school building which stood for over forty years.

Construction expert Prof John Cole published a damning report into the scandal in 2017.

[11]  Following this the ESP agreed to pay for all structural repair work (Nov 2018).