The report highlights the evidence of one pupil, who used the pseudonym Henry. He spent nine years at the school and said abuse was part of daily life.
He told the inquiry it was normal for 11-year-olds to be groomed with jelly babies, and for them to be molested in front of other pupils.
“It was normal to kick, hit, and strangle, to the point of unconsciousness, 10-year-olds. It was normal to inflict physical punishment with a plank of wood with no good reason.”
He said grown men subjected children to “psychological belittlement” and that “endless cycles of bullying” went unnoticed or unchecked.
Henry said “flagrant racism, sexism, homophobia” was ignored and there was no safeguarding.
“It was normal for there to be no pastoral care, and it was normal to be somewhere where nobody, not one person, loved or genuinely cared for you,” he added.
The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry was set up in October 2015 to look at the abuse of children in care in Scotland.
Lady Smith, who chairs the inquiry, has produced reports on abuse carried out at a number of schools, children’s homes and orphanages.