- The school was founded in 1876 and has occupied its present site since the 1960s. Its motto is Fideliter, fortiter, feliciter (“Faithfully, bravely, successfully”) and its five houses are named after saints: Andrew, David, George, Patrick and Francis.
- In 2022 the school launched “Cognito” lessons for Years 7 and 8, designed to help “pupils do what AI can’t” by nurturing the key creative-thinking skills of analytical ability, communication, open-mindedness, organisation and problem solving.
- The 14-acre site includes a heated indoor swimming pool, a gym and fitness suite, floodlit all-weather facilities for hockey, netball and tennis, an athletics track, a cricket square, and playing fields, as well as a school allotment.
- Former pupils include the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai, who moved to Birmingham after surviving an assassination attempt in her native Pakistan.
Sign up to The Times and The Sunday Times weekly parenting newsletter