King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys
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| Motto | "Spartam nactus es, hanc exorna" |
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| Established | 1883 |
| Type | Grammar school |
| Headteacher | Martin Garrod |
| Chair of Governors (Foundation) | B Matthews |
| Location |
Vicarage Road Kings Heath, Birmingham West Midlands B14 7QJ England Coordinates: 52°25′47″N 1°54′10″W / 52.42964°N 1.90289°W |
| DfE URN | 137045 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports Pre-academy reports |
| Students | 900 |
| Gender | Boys |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Houses | Tudor (Green), Howard (Blue), Seymour (Yellow), and Beaufort (Red) |
| Website | King Edward VI Camp Hill School For Boys |
King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys is a highly selective Grammar School, and one of the academically most successful schools in the United Kingdom, currently ranked 4th among state schools. The name is retained from the previous location at Camp Hill in central Birmingham from where the school moved to the Vicarage Road in the suburb of Kings Heath in 1956, sharing a campus with its sister school, also formerly located in Camp Hill. It is a school which specializes in Science, Mathematics, and Applied Learning. In 2006 the school was assessed by The Sunday Times as state school of the year. A Year 9 student was 2011 winner of The Guardian Children’s Fiction Page and the Gold Award in the British Physics Olympiad was won by a King Edward VI student in September 2011.
Ofsted inspections classify Camp Hill as an Outstanding Provider.
As with the other grammar schools in Birmingham, including those of the King Edwards Foundation, admission is selective based on performance in the Eleven plus exam, with around 1000 competing for around 120 places as of 2014 (the number of places available for Year 7 increased from ~90 following the many cuts of the coalition government of 2010-2015 that were made to schools). This number often changes or varies according to the number of candidates who originally sit the 11+ examination.
The school shares a campus with King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls and some major music events such as concerts, occasional drama activities, plays and musicals, are jointly held. A two week timetable synchronises the two schools, allowing for shares lessons for A-level subjects of Music and German. The fields, tennis courts, schoolyards and the main school buildings are not shared. There is a shared swimming pool used separately by boys and girls. The sixth form block is a shared facility in which the top floor is occupied by girls, and the ground floor is used by the boys' school. A joint sports hall is used by both boys and girls with a separation barrier. The dining room has a folding dividing partition. A new food technology room is located between the Girl and Boys school.
The school has computer rooms, a library, many science labs, and art and design rooms; it also features a lecture theatre, a large assembly hall, a sports hall, as well as specialised classrooms for subjects such as Mathematics, English, Modern Foreign Languages and the Humanities. The old gym has been redeveloped to create the school library, the wing where the English department is placed, and a Sixth Form study area.
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