| Headteacher | Mr Michael Douglass |
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| Specialism | Sports College |
| Location | Gaywood Road King's Lynn Norfolk PE30 2QB England |
| Local authority | Norfolk |
| DfE URN | 121187 |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Staff | 278 |
| Students | 1271 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Houses | 4 (Gloucester/Windsor, Keene/Thorseby, Edinburgh/York, Lancaster/School) |
| Colours | blue + gold |
| Website | kes |
King Edward VII School (known as KES) is a large, mixed comprehensive secondary school in Gaywood Road (A148), King's Lynn, Norfolk, England with around 1300 students, including about 300 in sixth form education.[1] Prior to the school year beginning in September 1979, KES was an all-boys state grammar school. The history of the school dates to 1510 when former lord mayor of Lynn Thomas Thoresby established a provision for teacher 6 children in his will.[2] The current school building was opened in 1906 by King Edward VII.[2] In 2007 the school was visited by Queen Elizabeth II as part of the centenary celebrations of the building. King Edward VII School has a sister school in Chongqing, China.
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The school specializes in Physical Education, and is a certified sports college.
The alumni association, the Old Lennensians, was revived in 2006 in association with the centenary of the new buildings donated by Sir William Lancaster.
Former pupils of the school and its predecessor, the Lynn Grammar School, include: Captain George Vancouver; Captain Manby, whose rocket apparatus for ship-to-shore rescues was used by HM Coastguard until recently; and England cricketer and former Captain of Middlesex Peter Parfitt. The famous eighteenth-century murderer Eugene Aram was an usher (teacher) at the school, and was arrested there in the staff room.
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