1940-1996: Pupils' Country of Origin
 
The information below has been trawled from 194o to 1996 documents



No  records of the pupils' parents occupation were kept for 1940 

The number of pupils for Dumfries and Galloway is largely made up of those children who were day-pupils, living within a twenty-mile radius of the school.

It is likely that children whose home was located in India, Malaysia, Turkey, Mallorca 
the African nations, were children of UK nationals living or working abroad. 

The relatively high number of children from Japan are likely to have occurred through the influence of Summerhill School  and the A. S. Neill Society which had become popular with Japanese families in the 1980s, 

The academic turned Headteacher, Shinichiro Hori had opened the first Kinokuni Childrens Village in Wakayama prefecture in 1982. 
In April 2009, he also took over Kilquhanity House School in Scotland and founded the Kinokuni Children's Village which catered for Japanese children.