Southfield Sanatorium

Southfield Sanatorium was a specialist historic hospital in Liberton, Edinburgh, Scotland, situated near Ellen's Glen nature reserve. The house was redeveloped to provide private residences, new housing was built in the grounds and a purpose-built health facility opened at Ellen's Glen in 2000.

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Ellen's Glen House

Ellen's Glen Community Hospital, originally Ellen's Glen House, is a community-based hospital which was built to provide services to elderly and mentally ill patients in Liberton, Edinburgh, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Lothian. In 2025, as result of the closure of the neighbouring Liberton Hospital, the medical day hospital moved from Liberton to Ellen's Glen. The hospital provides intermediate care and outpatients services, plus a small number of Hospital Based Complex Clinical Care (HBCCC) beds. It is also a base for the Hospital at Home service (a multidisciplinary acute care team).

Liberton Hospital

Liberton Hospital was a facility for geriatric medicine on Lasswade Road in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was managed by NHS Lothian. It closed at the end of December 2025. Intermediate care and outpatient services are now based at Ellen's Glen Community Hospital.

Liberton High School

Liberton High School is a secondary school in Liberton, in the south of Edinburgh, Scotland, which is located on Gilmerton Road. The school roll for the 2022–23 academic year was 846. Liberton High School has had certain great achievements in sports, such as the undefeated girls hockey XI in 1970-71. In football, they were the first Edinburgh school to win the Scottish Schools Secondary Shield, in 1966. On 1 April 2014, a 12-year-old girl was killed when a wall collapsed in one of the school Physical Education department's changing rooms. John Swinney, Deputy First Minister of Scotland, announced in December 2020 (as part of a £80M education investment) that Liberton High School would be entirely rebuilt. Construction began in 2023 and was scheduled to be completed in 2026.

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Gracemount High School

Gracemount High School (GHS) is a non-denominational six-year comprehensive secondary school serving south-east Edinburgh, Scotland. It has a current roll of over 600 pupils and around 80 staff. It is operated by City of Edinburgh Council, the local education authority. No current inspection report is available and it was last inspected in 2013. 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. The Scottish Government's school information dashboard for Gracemount High shows attainment levels at SCQF Level 3 in S3 at over 90 per cent for reading and listening and talking in 2018-19; 73 per cent of pupils leave with at least one award at SCQF level 5 or better.