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King Edward VI Handsworth School for Girls is a grammar school for girls aged 11–18 located in Handsworth, Birmingham, England. It is part of the Foundation of the Schools of King Edward VI . The school was founded in 1883 as King Edward's Aston on the site where its brother school, King Edward VI Aston School , remains to this day.
King Edward VI Handsworth Wood Girls' Academy is a secondary school and sixth form located in Handsworth Wood, Birmingham, England. [1] The building that the school currently occupies used to be known as Handsworth Wood Boys' School but it went through a change over ten years ago. The headteacher is Ms Kiran Takhar.
With the formation of the Academy Trust, the previously independent Handsworth Grammar School joined the foundation, becoming King Edward VI Handsworth Grammar School for Boys. [2] Since then, the Academy Trust has taken control of one educational establishment each year with the exception of 2020 (due to the COVID-19 pandemic ).
This is a list of, in the United Kingdom, the Crown Dependencies, and British Overseas Territories, schools that only admit girls, or those that only admit girls at certain levels, years, or grades—or those that follow the Diamond Schools model, which separates students by gender at points.
Girls in single-sex schools have coped better with the pandemic, new research reveals. Findings from this year’s Sunday Times Parent Power rankings show both private and state single-sex girl ...
Lordswood Girls’ School was rated Requires Improvement (3) at its latest Ofsted inspection (March 2022). [6] This was the first full Ofsted report since converting to an academy in 2011. Previous to academisation the school had been rated Outstanding. The 2019 Progress 8 score for the school was +0.74 with a rating of Well Above Average. [7]
In 1911, the girls' school moved out to a new building in Handsworth and merged with two smaller Foundation schools (Summer Hill and Bath Row). The whole Aston building was then used for boys. With the departure of the girls, the Pyramus and Thisbe Wall (which had previously served to separate the boys from the girls) was also removed. King ...
Handsworth has two grammar schools – Handsworth Grammar School and King Edward VI Handsworth School (for girls). St Andrew's Church is a listed building in Oxhill Road which also held Sunday school classes in a small building on the corner of Oxhill Road and Church Lane.