King Edward VI High School for Girls (KEHS) () is an
independent secondary school in
Edgbaston,
Birmingham, England. It is part of the
Foundation of the Schools of King Edward VI in Birmingham and occupies the same site as, and is twinned with,
King Edward's School (KES; boys school). Sarah Evans has been the headmistress since 1996.
History
KEHS was founded in 1883 and occupied part of the 1838 (
Charles Barry, architect)
New Street boys' school. In 1887, when the adjacent Hen & Chickens Hotel was known to be closing the governors considered acquiring it. In 1888, KEHS moved to the recently vacated, and almost brand new (1885), Liberal Club in Congreve Street (a site now covered by the lending section of the
Birmingham Central Library) under a short lease. Meanwhile plans for a new school on the Hen and Chickens site were being drawn up by the foundation's architect,
J. A. Chatwin. In 1892, land behind the hotel was bought with the intention of building the girls' school off the main road, hidden behind new commercial premises on New Street to shelter it from street noise. The New Street school opened in 1896. It moved, along with the boys' school, to its present location opposite the
University in
1940 to new buildings designed by
Holland W. Hobbiss. At this time a new, green uniform was introduced. The New Street site was bought by the
Prudential Assurance Company and leased for the
Odeon cinema.
Over one of the entrances is the motto
Trouthe Schal Delyvere from a...
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