The Royal Blind School is a specialist day and boarding school located in Edinburgh

Edinburgh

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, Scotland

Scotland

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. The school caters for pupils aged 3 to 19 who are blind

Blindness

Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or neurological factors.Various scales have been developed to describe the extent of vision loss and define blindness...

 or partially sighted

Visual impairment

Visual impairment is vision loss to such a degree as to qualify as an additional support need through a significant limitation of visual capability resulting from either disease, trauma, or congenital or degenerative conditions that cannot be corrected by conventional means, such as refractive...

, and has facilities for boys and girls of nursery

Nursery school

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, primary

Primary education

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 and secondary

Secondary education

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 age. Students attending the school come primarily from Scotland, but also from other parts of the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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.

The school is divided into two campuses, both situated in Edinburgh. These are located in Canaan Lane and Craigmillar Park. The Craigmillar Park campus is for pupils who are blind and partially sighted, while the Canaan Lane campus caters for students with multiple disabilities.

External links

• Royal Blind School homepage
• History
• Royal Blind School at Scottish Council of Independent Schools