Handsworth Grammar School
King Edward VI Handsworth Grammar School for Boys, formerly and commonly Handsworth Grammar School, is an academy grammar school that admits boys from the age of eleven. The school was founded in 1862 and is located in Handsworth, Birmingham, England. it is situated just off the A41, near the junction with the A4040. King Edward Handsworth Grammar School is sometimes abbreviated as HGS. The headmaster is Dr Simon Bird.
In September 2017, the school was admitted into the Foundation of the Schools of King Edward VI, where it was renamed King Edward VI Handsworth Grammar School for Boys.
The school has five houses: Henry, William, Nelson, Galahad and Alfred
Notable former pupils
- William McKay Aitken, Scottish-born Indian writer and explorer, resident in the Himalayas since 1960
- Kadeer Ali, English cricketer
- Ian Bateman, British academic and Professor of Environmental Economics at the University of East Anglia
- Sir David Cox, British statistician
- Nigel Fortune, British scholar of music
- Denis Howell, Baron Howell, British Labour Party politician, Member of Parliament, and life peer
- Eddie Hughes, Conservative Member of Parliament
- Mark Rowley, senior British police officer
- Siôn Simon, British Labour Party politician, Member of Parliament from 2001 to 2010, Member of the European Parliament since 2014
- John Tooze, scientist
- Robert Weir, English discus and hammer thrower
- Harry B. Whittington, British palaeontologist and academic, Woodwardian Professor of Geology at the University of Cambridge from 1966 to 1983
- Joe Wilson, English footballer
- Adil Ray, comedian
- Corey Blackett-Taylor, footballer for Aston Villa F.C.
