King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls, Birmingham

Ofsted's report card from its 24 March 2026 inspection grades King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls on 7 areas: 5 exceptional and 2 strong standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Achievement - Exceptional. "Pupils' achievement across the school is remarkable."

Inclusion - Exceptional. "Leaders have established highly inclusive systems and culture."

Leadership and governance - Exceptional. "Leaders have established a culture of excellence."

Personal development and wellbeing - Exceptional. "Pupils' personal development and wellbeing is a fundamental and significant part of daily school life."

Post-16 provision - Exceptional. "The post-16 provision is the pinnacle of the school's highly effective and aspirational experience."

Attendance and behaviour - Strong standard. "Pupils' attendance and behaviour are excellent."

Curriculum and teaching - Strong standard. "The school's curriculum is well designed."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should ensure continued improvement to their curriculum implementation and attendance strategies to achieve and sustain exceptional standards, which have a transformational impact on all groups of pupils".

From the headteacher's welcome: "We are a forward-thinking, selective state grammar school with academy status. We belong to the King Edward VI Foundation of schools and Multi Academy Trust and are extremely proud of our rich history and traditions. Camp Hill Girls is an inspirational place to learn, grow and succeed."

Coming up: an open evening on Thursday 19 November 2026 and an admissions event on Thursday 6 May 2027. Check the school's website before you go, as dates can change.

In 2026, pupils at King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls averaged an Attainment 8 score of 78.8, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 47.5 in Birmingham and 47 across England.

97% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 49% in Birmingham and 47% in England.

That is down from 80.4 in 2025.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was 0.96: pupils made well above average progress compared with pupils nationally who started secondary school at the same level. Progress 8 was not published for 2026.

Disadvantaged pupils averaged an Attainment 8 of 74.4, against 80.6 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 6.2 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 19 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Chemistry, Biology and Physics.

King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls is a grammar school: places go to children who reach the required standard in its entrance test, and only then are the oversubscription criteria applied.

For September 2026 entry, 337 families put King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls as their first choice and 921 named it as one of their preferences, for 150 places offered. That is 2.2 first choices for every place. 192 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls admits pupils through an entrance test, usually called the 11-plus. Children have to be registered for it in advance, normally in the spring or summer of Year 5; the test itself is usually sat in September of Year 6, and results come out in October, before the 31 October deadline for naming secondary schools.

Passing the test makes a child eligible rather than guaranteeing a place: when more children pass than there are places, King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls ranks them by the criteria in its admissions policy, which can include test score and distance. Check Birmingham's admissions pages and the school's own policy for this year's registration deadline - a child who is not registered in time cannot sit the test.

Birmingham has 8 state grammar schools in all, so a child who passes may have several selective schools to choose between.

The nearest other state secondary schools to King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls are King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys (under 0.1 miles, Outstanding, selective, Attainment 8 78.4); Bishop Challoner Catholic College (0.5 miles, Good, Attainment 8 51.9); Wheelers Lane Technology College (0.6 miles, Outstanding, Attainment 8 48.2); and Queensbridge School (0.8 miles, Good, Attainment 8 50.1).

King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls's 2026 results were higher than all 4 of them.

King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls is one of 12 schools run by King Edward Vi Academy Trust Birmingham, an academy trust.

Across the trust's secondary schools, pupils averaged an Attainment 8 score of 64.1 in 2024/25.

70 parents answered Ofsted's Parent View survey about King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls (as of April 2026): 89% would recommend the school, 89% say their child is happy there and 29% of those with a view say bullying is dealt with well.

The strongest agreement was that their child feels safe (93%); the weakest, that the school deals with bullying well (among parents with a view) (29%).

Of the 148 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 99% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 1% to a further education college.

Of the 176 students who left the sixth form in 2023/24, 72% went on to university or other higher education, 2% to apprenticeships and 6% into work. 70% went to one of the most selective third of universities.

In 2026, 19 pupils (1.7%) received SEN support and 2 (0.2%) had an education, health and care plan, against 16.2% and 4.6% at the average state school. The most common need among them is autism.

The nearest railway station is Pineapple Road Rail Station, about 430 metres away (roughly a 5-minute walk).

11 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Camp Hill Schools (adjacent), 190 metres away.

In 2024/25, King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls issued 21 suspensions, 1.9 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 1 permanent exclusion.

The primary schools closest to King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls are Colmore Junior School (0.2 miles), Colmore Infant and Nursery School (0.2 miles), St Dunstan's Catholic Primary School (0.5 miles) and Moor Green Primary Academy (0.6 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.