[4] Upon enrolment at the school, the pupils are assigned to a house: Dundas, Hopetoun, Rosebery or Forth.

[7] The school buildings, corresponding with increasing student numbers, have been much extended from their original 1970 form.

Queensferry High School has twice been in the news in recent years due to separate security issues.

On 15 December 2005 pupils were locked in their classrooms for two hours and told to stay away from windows and out of corridors after a man with a gun threatened to commit suicide in a house opposite the school.

Armed police closed off the surrounding area and arrested the man without any injury to anyone.