Edinburgh School Board

Dean Public School, a primary school built in 1875 to serve the community of Dean Village, it is typical of the handsome, Sandstone schools of the period built by the Edinburgh School Board, although is on the small side by the standards of its contemporaries. The school closed in 1961 due to depopulation in the Dean Village area as the old milling and tanning industries closed down, with remaining pupils relocated to the Flora Stevenson School. Having been an abandoned school in a near-derelict part of Edinburgh, it has been converted into nice flats in what is now an exclusive neighbourhood.