Craigerne Residential School

Craigerne Residential School was in Peebles, Peeblesshire, Scotland.

Craigerne was opened by Barnardo's as a residential school for boys with emotional difficulties April 1956. Over the years hundreds of boys went through its doors through the sixties and seventies. In the winter of 1982, the school had a major renovation, with a new assembly hall-cum-gymnasium, and improved classroom facilities, funded by a grant from the Scottish Education Department. There were at the time 25 students. In 2020 the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry issued a report which included Barnardo's homes at Tyneholm, Balcary, Glasclune and Craigerne in Scotland. The Inquiry concluded that children in the care of these homes in the 1950s and 1960s suffered emotional, sexual and physical abuse.

School closure
Craigerne closed in June 1989 and it would seem was passed to the Education Department. The school was purchased by a developer in 2004 and converted into  flats  Replacement new oak stairs and paneling to match the original was restored after extensive fire damage.