Kesteven and Sleaford High School

Kesteven and Sleaford High School Selective Academy, commonly known as Kesteven and Sleaford High School (KSHS), is a selective school with academy status in Sleaford, an English market town in Lincolnshire. It caters for girls aged between eleven and sixteen in Years 7 to 11, and girls and boys aged sixteen to eighteen in its coeducational Sixth Form. From the 1890s, the lack of secondary schooling for girls in Sleaford became a growing problem, but the county council lacked the funds to expand the boys' grammar school to take on girls. In 1902, a group of businessmen and gentlemen from Sleaford formed a private company to run Sleaford and Kesteven High School for Girls based on Southgate. A private school, it catered for boys under 8 and girls of all ages, including boarders, and had a preparatory department for the younger pupils; girls in the district could sit examinations to obtain a limited number of local authority scholarships which paid their fees. In 1919, Kesteven County Council took over the school (renaming it Kesteven and Sleaford High School). It continued to charge pupils for their schooling until the passage of the Education Act 1944, when KSHS became a state grammar school and fees were abolished; the preparatory school was wound down as KSHS shifted to cater for girls over 11 only. A modern building complex was completed in three phases between 1957 and 1968

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