Prince Henry's High School

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Prince Henry's High School
Motto Parva Magna Crescunt
Established bef. 1376
Type Public Secondary School and Sixth Form College
Headteacher Mr Bernard Roberts
Specialism Language College
Location Victoria Avenue
Evesham
Worcestershire
WR11 4QH
England
LEA Worcestershire
Ofsted number 117000
Students 1337
Gender Coeducational
Ages 13 to 18
Website http://www.princehenrys.worcs.sch.uk
Coordinates: 52°05′56″N 1°56′29″W / 52.09889, -1.94137

Prince Henry's High School is a school in Evesham, Worcestershire, England. It is a co-educational comprehensive high school, in which there are about 1050 students enrolled, aged between 13 and 18.

The school is over 630 years old and was originally set up as a school for the poor attached to Evesham's Benedictine Abbey. The school is named after Prince Henry, the brother of King Charles I who the Vicar of Evesham, Dr Lewis Bayley had previously taught and secured an endowment from for the school and the town of Evesham through a new town charter, which mentioned a "Free Grammar School of Prince Henry in Evesham".

The School was a Grammar School until 1973, when it became a Comprehensive school. In 1993 it became a Grant-maintained school then in 1999 it became a Foundation School. It is now a Language College.