King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls is a grammar school in Kings Heath, Birmingham for students aged 11 to 18 (Year 7 to Year 13). It is one of the 7 schools in Birmingham that are part of the of the King Edward VI Foundation. It shares a campus with King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys, and in 1958 both schools moved from their original location in central Birmingham to the Vicarage Road in the Birmingham suburb of Kings heath. The buildings are connected and some facilities and activities are shared, but they are separate establishments. The name has been retained from the school's former site at Camp Hill. King Edward is a Specialist School for Maths, Computing and Languages.
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