King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls A GSG School
- King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls
Vicarage Road
Kings Heath
Birmingham
B14 7QJ - Head: Karen Stevens
- T 01214 442150
- F 01214 445123
- E head@kechg.org.uk
- W www.kechg.org.uk
- A state school for girls aged from 11 to 18.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Birmingham
- Pupils: 1,070; sixth formers: 323
- Religion: Non-denominational
- Open days: June; Sixth Form open event: November
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Outstanding 1
- 16-19 study programmes Outstanding 1
- Outcomes for children and learners Outstanding 1
- Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding 1
- Personal development, behaviour and welfare Outstanding 1
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Outstanding 1
- 1 Full inspection 17th November 2021
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
The school has a specific strategy for the arts and humanities in order to counterbalance the demand for sciences. All do drama and music for the first two years and have an hour a fortnight of a STEM course where the emphasis is on the creative interface between mathematics and technology. The school has always been highly selective and is often at or near the top of regional and national league tables of selective state schools. Whether the new admissions criteria may...
What the school says...
Entrance examinations consist of: 11 1st test - verbal and numerical reasoning. 2nd test - non-verbal reasoning. No interview.
Sample papers available commercially.
Converted to an academy 2011.
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School associations
State grammar school
What The Good Schools Guide says
Headteacher
Since 2022, Karen Stevens, previously deputy head.
Entrance
Entrance to Camp Hill Girls is controlled by the King Edward Foundation, Birmingham, and frankly it is byzantine in its complexity. Introduced to open up the grammar schools to children living in disadvantaged circumstances, the system is so complicated that even after three explanations from different people, we found it impossible to understand who really is benefitting from this. There are lower entry requirements from those coming from particular ‘zones’ in Birmingham.
The school is much in demand and at sixth form. The head tells us she could fill the additional places many times over with those wanting science and maths A levels. She is keen to ensure a balance by taking those who are also wanting arts and humanities subjects.
There...
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Results by exam and subject
Subject results
Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
Interpreting catchment maps
The maps show in colour where the pupils at a school came from*. Red = most pupils to Blue = fewest.
Where the map is not coloured we have no record in the previous three years of any pupils being admitted from that location based on the options chosen.
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Further reading
If there are more applicants to a school than it has places for, who gets in is determined by which applicants best fulfil the admissions criteria.
Admissions criteria are often complicated, and may change from year to year. The best source of information is usually the relevant local authority website, but once you have set your sights on a school it is a good idea to ask them how they see things panning out for the year that you are interested in.
Many schools admit children based on distance from the school or a fixed catchment area. For such schools, the cut-off distance will vary from year to year, especially if the school give priority to siblings, and the pattern will be of a central core with outliers (who will mostly be siblings). Schools that admit on the basis of academic or religious selection will have a much more scattered pattern.
*The coloured areas outlined in black are Census Output Areas. These are made up of a group of neighbouring postcodes, which accounts for their odd shapes. These provide an indication, but not a precise map, of the school’s catchment: always refer to local authority and school websites for precise information.
The 'hotter' the colour the more children have been admitted.
Children get into the school from here:
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most years
quite often
infrequently
sometimes, but not in this year
Who came from where
| School | Year | Places |
|---|---|---|
| The Blue Coat School Birmingham | 2023 | 1 |
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