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King Edward VI Camp Hill Schools - A Birmingham Gem!

King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys was founded at Camp Hill in 1883. Shortly afterwards it was joined by the girls school. The schools relocated to Kings Heath in the mid to late 1950s.

Where are the King Edward VI Camp Hill Schools?

King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys is on Vicarage Road, King's Heath, Birmingham, B14 7QJ. King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls is on Vicarage Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham B14 7QJ.

In brief

King Edward VI Camp Hill Schools is two Grammar schools on one site. The boys and the girls school. Founded in 1883, they were at a site at Camp Hill until they moved to Vicarage Road in Kings Heath (boys in 1956, girls in 1958). The old building survives at Camp Hill Circus near Bordesley Middleway and Stratford Road as The Bordesley Centre. The current school is next to Kings Heath Park.

King Edward VI Camp Hill Schools. Photography by Elliott Brown

King Edward VI Camp Hill Schools - history

King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys and King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls was one of the two King Edward VI schools founded in 1883. Originally located at the top of the Stratford Road, near Sparkbrook and Bordesley. They relocated to a site at Vicarage Road and Cartland Road between 1956 and 1958. Unlike Five Ways, the old building at Camp Hill Circus still stands today, as The Bordesley Centre.

King Edward VI Camp Hill Schools at Camp Hill

At the corner of Bordesley Middleway and Stratford Road is the original King Edward VI Camp Hill Schools building. It was designed by Martin and Chamberlain, and first opened in 1883 for the King Edward VI Foundation. The building is now a Grade II* listed building. The builder was James Moffat. There was later additions to the building during the 20th century, with more alterations in the early 21st century. The school of 1883 was the boys school, later the girls school was built by 1890. The school was built in the Gothic style. After the school moved to Kings Heath, the buildings was first used as a Teachers Training College, then by the City of Birmingham Polytechnic (later University of Central England, now Birmingham City University). It is now The Bordesley Centre, a religious, educational and advisory centre for Birmingham's Yemeni community, and run by the Muath Trust. The building was remodelled and refurbished in 2004-06.

The former King Edward VI Camp Hill Schools building at Camp Hill Circus near Bordesley Middleway. Photography by Elliott Brown

King Edward VI Camp Hill Schools at Kings Heath

The boys school relocated to a site in Kings Heath at Vicarage Road and Cartland Road during 1956. This is next to Kings Heath Park. While the house of the former estate here is now within Kings Heath Park, the gatehouse is in the grounds of the school near the Vicarage Road. Formerly owned by the Cartland family from 1880 until the 1900s (ancestors of the late Romance novel author Barbara Cartland). The girls school relocated to the site in 1958, and both the boys and girls schools share buildings. They also have playing fields at Kings Heath, which they would have had no room for at Camp Hill.

King Edward VI Camp Hill Schools