King Edward VI Humanities College
King Edward VI Academy (formerly King Edward VI Humanities College), is a coeducational bi-lateral secondary school, sixth form college, specialist Humanities College and academy located in Spilsby, Lincolnshire for children between the ages of eleven and eighteen.
The bi-lateral status is not common, with less than five such schools remaining in England and Wales, but effectively means that any local children who pass the Lincolnshire Eleven plus examination and select King Edward VI Humanities College will receive a grammar school education, but the school also accepts children who have not passed the 11+ and they will instead receive a separate comprehensive education but under the same roof and from the same teaching staffs and management team. Subject to a child's individual performance, during their time at the school, re-streaming between the bi-lateral poles is possible although rare and offers a borderline or later developing child a chance of achieving a grammar school education.
The school is an amalagamation of two separate institutions, the King Edward VI Grammar School opened in 1550 and the Sir John Franklin Secondary Modern School, which opened in 1954. These schools were combined in 1991 as Spilsby High School, initially retaining both sites. The school has provided sixth form education for the over 16s since September 2008, with provision of study for a BTec National Diploma Studies in Business Studies.
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