Kesteven and Sleaford High School
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| Motto | Educating today's pupils for tomorrow's society |
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| Established | 1902 |
| Type | Selective grammar school Academy |
| Headteacher | Josephine Smith |
| Chair of Governors | Deborah Hopkins |
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Jermyn Street Sleaford Lincolnshire NG34 7RS England |
| DfE number | 925/4005 |
| DfE URN | 137667 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports Pre-academy reports |
| Staff | 45 approx. |
| Students | 745 approx. |
| Gender | Girls, Boys accepted to Sixth Form |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Colours | Green, yellow |
| Website | Kesteven and Sleaford High School Selective Academy |
Kesteven and Sleaford High School, (KSHS), is a selective school with academy status for girls aged between eleven and sixteen and girls and boys between sixteen and eighteen, located on Jermyn Street in the small market town of Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England, close to Sleaford railway station.
Sleaford and Kesteven High School Ltd. was founded by a group of local businessmen and housed in 62 Southgate, a town-house constructed by local architect and builder Charles Kirk for himself in 1850. When teaching commenced, on 5 May 1902, the headmistress, Margaret Kate Lewer, presided over 23 pupils, including 8 boarders; by 1909, 62 girls were on roll and over the next quarter of a century, the numbers at the school increased to 350. Run by a board of nine directors with W. V. R. Fane of Fulbeck Hall as chair, the school operated independently until it was taken over by the local education authority in 1919.
As the school increased in size, buildings were added to its grounds. The first were wooden huts, installed shortly after the end of the First World War, which provided the school with an assembly hall, office space and classrooms. A brick block was completed in 1924, followed by an extension to the original house three years later.Kesteven County Council planned to rebuild the school in 1930, but this never came to fruition; instead, the school had to wait for prefabricated classrooms to be added in 1946–7. The former urban district council offices at Jermyn Street were also purchased by the Council and converted into classrooms for the school.
The Education Act 1944 abolished fees for state schools and standardised entrance examinations. As a result, KSHS wound down its preparatory school during the mid-1940s and the County Selection Examination was used for all admissions. By the early 1950s, there were 330 pupils by 20 staff at the school. In 1952, as part of the school's golden jubilee celebrations, staff and pupils at the school proposed purchasing land behind the school house. Owned by British Railways, the firm eventually agreed a price of £750; over a three-year period, the school raised the funds through donations from parents, staff and local people. The playing fields were eventually purchased, but delays meant that they were not opened until 1962.
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