King Edward VII Science and Sport College

The school was known as King Edward VII Grammar School. On 5 May 1968, a recording of Songs of Praise at the school was broadcast.[2] The school choir was featured on 29 September 1968 on In Every Corner Sing on BBC Radio 4[3] and also on the Home Service on Children's Hour[4] on 16 July 1950.

The school is named after King Edward VII. In 2008 the school gained specialist status as Sports College and a Science College. Previously a community school administered by Leicestershire County Council, King Edward VII Science and Sport College converted to academy status in October 2012. However the school continues to coordinate with Leicestershire County Council for admissions.[5]

King Edward VII Science and Sport College offers GCSEs and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils,[6] while students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of A Levels and further BTECs.[7]

• Prof John Dowell FRS FInstP, Poynting Professor of Physics from 1997–2002 at the University of Birmingham
• Prof Norman March, Coulson Professor of Theoretical Chemistry from 1977–94 at the University of Oxford
• Prof Peter Odell, Professor of Economic Geography from 1968–81 at Erasmus University Rotterdam, North Sea oil economist
• Prof John A. Pickett CBE FRS, insecticide researcher at Rothamsted Research
• Prof Fred Smith[8] (1911–65), carbohydrate chemist, Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Minnesota winning the C. S. Hudson Award in 1962, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Birmingham who worked with Maurice Stacey on the Tube Alloys uranium-refinement project, and went to work on the Manhattan Project at Oak Ridge National Laboratory with Harry Julius Emeléus and Sir Mark Oliphant