Stewart's Melville College

Stewart's Melville College
Address
Map
Queensferry Road

Edinburgh
,
EH4 3EZ

Scotland
Coordinates55°57′13.58″N 3°13′35.5″W / 55.9537722°N 3.226528°W / 55.9537722; -3.226528
Information
TypePrivate day and boarding school
MottoNever unprepared[1]
Established1832; 192 years ago (1832) (Melville College)
1855; 169 years ago (1855) (Daniel Stewart's College)
1972; 52 years ago (1972) (merger)
PrincipalAnthony Simpson
GenderMale
Age11 to 18
Enrolment756[2] (2015)
Colour(s)     
Red, black, and gold
School fees
  • Day: from £9000 for nursery to £15,423[3] for senior school;
  • Boarding: £24,291–29,162 per annum (2015)[2]
Junior school1254 students (2015)[2]
Websitewww.esms.org.uk

Stewart's Melville College (SMC) is a private day and boarding school in Edinburgh, Scotland. Classes are all boys in the 1st to 5th years and co-educational in Sixth (final) year. It has a roll of about 750 pupils.[2][4]

Daniel Stewart's College was designed by the architect David Rhind and opened as Daniel Stewart's Hospital in 1848, renamed to Daniel Stewart's College in 1870, and placed under the perpetual management of the Royal Company of Merchants of the City of Edinburgh.[5] Melville College was known as the Edinburgh Institution for Languages and Mathematics from 1832 to 1936. In 1972, the two colleges merged to become Stewart's Melville College.

The school is twinned with the Mary Erskine School (MES), an all-girls independent school approximately one mile (1.6 km) from Stewart's Melville College. Together the combined Erskine Stewart's Melville Schools (ESMS) have a co-educational Sixth Year and Junior School, the latter of which is split between the two campuses and caters for pupils from 3 to 12 years old. The two schools share a Principal, and most extra-curricular activities, such as performing arts, are run jointly. Both SMC and MES are managed by the Merchant Company of Edinburgh, which is also responsible for the co-educational George Watson's College.

  1. ^ "Top private school expels four teenage boys caught with cannabis". The Scotsman. 10 September 2010. Retrieved 17 February 2017.
  2. ^ a b c d Miller, Nikki (Editor) (2014) "School Guide Edinburgh & The Lothians, 2015 Annual Issue", Select Publishing Ltd.
  3. ^ ESMS
  4. ^ "SCIS – Stewart's Melville College". 2010. Archived from the original on 22 November 2009. Retrieved 9 July 2010.
  5. ^ "Our Schools".