Kesteven and Sleaford High School (KSHS), is a selective school with academy status for girls aged between eleven and sixteen and girls and boys between sixteen and eighteen, located on Jermyn Street in the small market town of Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England, close to Sleaford railway station. History Background In the late 19th century, Sleaford's solitary secondary school – Carre's Grammar School – admitted boys only. From 1893, Kesteven County Council's Technical Instruction Committee offered annual junior scholarships (which would pay school fees), but the only place they were tenable for girls was at the Lincoln Secondary School for Girls. As the Sleaford Gazette reported, a problem facing Sleaford at the turn of the 20th century was that there was no school "supplying a good, high-class education for the daughters and young children of middle-class and well-to-do residents in Sleaford and neighbourhood". In the late 1890s, the county council wanted to expand Sleaford's secondary education provision. When the governors of Carre's Grammar School applied to the Technical Instruction Committee for a grant towards a new school building, the council wished to make the grant conditional on the school accepting girls. The governors suggested creating a separate girls' high school, but discussions turned to creating a combined high school for boys and girls; by 1899, plans had been approved by the county council and costed at £4,000, of which the council offered to provide £1,500. The Sleaford Tradesmen's Association supported the scheme and began fundraising. By September, they had raised £540 and the school governors had raised a further £650, but £1,100 remained to be found. Aside from a commitment from Henry Chaplin to contribute £50 towards the cost, the situation had not changed by December. By August 1900, a local newspaper reported that "no further action had been taken towards the construction of High Schools at Sleaford owing to the lack of funds, about £1,000 more being required." 1901–02: Origins The problem was solved in 1901, when a syndicate of local gentlemen and businessmen launched a venture to establish a school for girls on a private basis. In November 1901, E. H. Godson purchased the architect Charles Kirk's mansion house on Southgate (along with five cottages and stabling) for £2,150; Godson was acting on behalf of a "syndicate of residents, who propose to convert it into a High School for girls". A company, The Sleaford and Kesteven High School for Girls