Our History / Timeline

Today
Presently Craighouse School has nine Science labs, eleven mini Music studios, six Music rooms, three Visual Arts rooms, two technology rooms, four IT rooms, five Religion rooms and two inquiry centres, all of which have been designed to meet the educational needs of the 21st century. Our facilities allow us to have approximately twenty pupils per class, in order to further enhance our Educational Project.
For sports the school has four grass fields for football, rugby and athletics; and two state-of-the-art synthetic fields for hockey. The facilities include changing rooms for pupils, referees and staff, an infirmary and a quincho, built and equipped to the highest standards of technology available, to provide our families and community with a comfortable meeting place.

2014
On December 8th 2014, Mrs Darling passed away. She lived to the age of 95, and was able to see her school safely installed on the new campus. It was as if she had waited for this time to move on herself. Reverend Alfred Cooper led the service in the school, where the community bid farewell to this extraordinary woman.

2013
On March 28th 2013 Mr Fernando Siña Gardner, president of the Charles T. Darling Educational Foundation, presided over the inauguration of these new Craighouse School buildings. The traditional ribbon-cutting ceremony was carried out in the presence of all pupils and teachers. Our founder, Mrs Joan Darling, her daughter Judith and her son Richard attended the ceremony where we remembered the early days when Mr Charles T. Darling and his wife had given life to Craighouse School 55 years before.




2007
In 2007 the Board of Directors made the decision to sell the school’s playing fields on José Alcalde Délano and buy 24 hectares of land on Av. Paseo Pie Andino, Lo Barnechea. This visionary step allowed Craighouse School to accommodate both school and playing fields on a single integrated campus, the only one of its kind in Latin America.

2004
In 2004 the school embarked on an extensive curriculum revision. The result is a curriculum with an inquiry-based focus, which prepares pupils from Playgroup to Year 12 to develop high academic standards.
2004
1994
In 1994 Mr Peter Lacey was appointed headmaster, a position that he holds until the present. Under his leadership, and with the close collaboration of Mrs Darling, the school’s first Educational Project was written. This document clearly defines the philosophy, values and principles that guide the school.





1971
1971 marked the closing of the boarding school and the admission of the first girls. It was also the year when Mr Charles T. Darling, founder and headmaster, passed away. Mr Willy Pérez succeeded him in the role of headmaster, while Mrs Darling continued as Director General until she retired in 2002.
1971


1962
In July 1962 Craighouse School moved to a large mansion in Apoquindo 5412, which again proved to be too small to accommodate the increasing demand for places.
1962
1959
Mr Charles T. Darling and his wife, Joan Gibson-Craig-Carmichael, founded Craighouse School. It began as a bilingual boys’ school in a rented house at La Concepción 236 with a roll of 58 pupils, a quarter of whom were boarders. The name of the school stems from Mrs Darling’s surname Craig, to which the word ‘house’ was added to reflect its family-oriented ethos.
1959