The King's High School For Girls
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The King's High School For Girls (also called simply King's High or KHS) is an independent school for girls in picturesque Smith Street, Warwick, England. There are currently 550 girls in years 7-13 (ages 11-18). One of its main feeder schools is Warwick Preparatory School, commonly called The Squirrels, which takes girls from the ages of 3 to 11 and boys up to the age of 7.
Plans for a girls' school in Warwick were drawn up as long ago as 1875, but the school could not get underway until 1879. In this year boys from The King's School, Warwick, later to become known as Warwick School, who were being taught in Landor House, the modern site of the girls' school and the birth-place of the poet Walter Savage Landor, finally moved to their new buildings south of the River Avon. KHS, The Squirrels and Warwick School now form the Warwick Schools Foundation. The King's High School for Girls has suffered throughout its history from being very short of space, and, since its foundation, has taken over the buildings of two neighbouring schools. The premises of one of them, the former King's Middle School (which was only in existence from 1875 to 1906), caught fire in 1970. There are now brand new buildings, including a new sixth form building, completed in 2006, on the former Middle School site. The school also has the lease on the former St Peter's Chapel, known as the Eastgate, situated at the top of Smith Street. There is an astroturf pitch and over six acres of playing fields on land adjoining Warwick School's own playing fields half a mile to the south.
Increasing levels of co-operation between Warwick School and King's High School for Girls has led to the joint teaching of certain AS Level and A Level subjects from September 2004, for example drama and physical education. Girls were also admitted to Warwick School Combined Cadet Force, founded in 1884, in 2003.
