It serves students from Cockenzie,Port Seton, Prestonpans,Longniddry, Blindwells and the surrounding areas.

[1] Every pupil who goes to Preston Lodge High School is sorted into one of three houses.

Every pupil is sorted into a random house (unless they have an older sibling(s) already assigned to a house, in which case they are sorted into the same one): The original school situated on Preston Road (the site of the current Preston Tower Primary School) burnt down in January 1967.

A new school was built at Park View and formally opened on the 14th of November 1969 by the late John P Mackintosh, MA.

This would include a re-shuffle of departments like the Support for Learning (SFL) and Pupil Support classes as well as more rooms for subjects such as Modern Studies, etc.