Birmingham, West Midlands · Birmingham
King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls
The realised admitting score has run as high as 255 in recent cycles — far above both the nominal 205 qualifying score and the 224 priority score meant to mark out the strongest applicants.
Gained grammar-school status in 1883 and moved to its current Kings Heath site in 1958, where it shares grounds and a purpose-built joint sixth-form centre with brother school King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys — a sibling claim at that boys' school counts toward this school's own sibling-priority rule. Governed by the King Edward VI Academy Trust Birmingham, distinct from the historic King Edward VI Foundation charity, which mainly organises the shared entrance test and publishes reference qualifying/priority scores. Those published figures (205 qualifying, 224 priority) are only nominal reference points: the actual score needed for an ordinary place has run well above both in every recent cycle — 255 for September 2026 entry — reflecting fierce demand for a fixed 150 places in a city where only a small number of schools are selective.
Key facts
- Gender
- girls
- Age range
- 11-18
- Region
- West Midlands
- Local authority
- Birmingham
- Established
- 1883
- DfE URN
- 137044
- Website
- https://www.kechg.org.uk
Admissions
- Admissions authority
- The school sets its own test and criteria
- Entrance test board
- GL Assessment, branded 'The Grammar Schools in Birmingham Entrance Test' and organised by the King Edward VI Foundation on behalf of participating schools.
- Test format
- Two multiple-choice papers of around 60 minutes each, covering English comprehension, verbal reasoning, mathematics and non-verbal/spatial reasoning, weighted 50% English/verbal, 25% non-verbal, 25% maths, standardised for pupil age.
- Qualifying / pass mark
- Qualifying score 205 and priority score 224, as published by the King Edward VI Foundation for the 2026/2027 entry cycles — but these are standing reference thresholds, not the realised admitting cutoff, which has run far higher and varies every year: around 249 for September 2023 entry (230 after waiting-list movement), around 239 for September 2024 (224 final), around 243 for September 2025 (238 final), and 255 for September 2026 entry.sources conflict
A secondary/tutoring-derived source reported the qualifying and priority scores in reverse order (224 qualifying / 205 priority) from the King Edward VI Foundation's own results-and-offers page (205 qualifying / 224 priority). The Foundation's own primary source is treated as authoritative, since it's internally consistent with the policy's category logic.
- Superselective?
- Not establishedverify with school
No source uses the term for this school either way; see full reasoning above.
Catchment & priority criteria
A defined catchment of 18 named Birmingham electoral wards (including Moseley, Sparkhill, Small Heath, Acocks Green, Billesley, Stirchley and others) — but this only gates specific priority categories, not basic eligibility. Any applicant meeting the plain qualifying score (205) can be admitted regardless of catchment via the general category; catchment only affects the Pupil Premium and priority-score categories.
- Looked-after and previously looked-after children achieving the qualifying score, ranked by test score then distance
- Pupil Premium children achieving the qualifying score and living in catchment, ranked by distance
- If under 25% of places are filled by the above, Pupil Premium children achieving the qualifying score living outside catchment, up to 25% of places total, ranked by score then sibling then distance
- Applicants achieving the priority score (224) living in catchment — older sibling (including at the brother school) first, then ranked by distance
- All other applicants achieving the qualifying score (205), ranked by test score, then sibling, then distance
Results
| Year | Attainment 8 | GCSE 5+ Eng & Maths | Progress 8 | A*–A | A*–B |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 82.3 (secondary source, not independently confirmed against DfE directly) | verify with school | +0.96 (secondary source only) — plausible for this pre-COVID-baseline cohort, but not independently verified against DfE directly | 67% | verify with school |
| A-level (school's own social media, results-day post): over 67% of grades A*/A, with over 30% at A* specifically. | |||||
| 2025 | 80.4 | 98% | Not calculated — confirmed as the nationwide COVID-era gap affecting this cohort's KS2 baseline | 62-63.7% (two secondary sources differ) | 86.8% |
| A-level figures (62-63.7% A*-A across two secondary sources that differ slightly; 86.8% A*-B) are single-sourced from a secondary aggregator and not independently confirmed against DfE directly. | |||||
Ofsted
- Rating
- Outstanding, in all four sub-judgements: quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, and leadership and management. This was a full graded inspection under the pre-September 2024 framework — no inspection has occurred since, so this is now an almost five-year-old legacy grade rather than a report card.
- Date
- 17-18 November 2021
- Report
- Read the full report
Sources
- 1. DfE Get Information About Schools — URN, status, gender, LA — https://get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/Establishments/Establishment/Details/137044
- 2. School's own Admission Policy, September 2026 — https://www.kechg.org.uk/_site/data/files/admissions/DC09C2BA637F03217D00D7AC8A5AE763.pdf
- 3. King Edward VI Foundation — The Test — https://kingedwardvifoundation.co.uk/the-test/
- 4. King Edward VI Foundation — Results and Offers — https://kingedwardvifoundation.co.uk/admissions/results-and-offers/
- 5. Ofsted report, inspected 17-18 November 2021 — https://files.ofsted.gov.uk/v1/file/50176490
- 6. School's own exam results page — https://www.kechg.org.uk/our-school/exam-results
- 7. School's own Sixth Form admissions page — https://www.kechg.org.uk/sixth-form/admissions-and-open-days
Last updated 2026-09-01. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.