to use computing facilities at Aston University. Girls have been admitted to Five Ways since 1988, first in the Sixth Form, then in the main school ten years later. Today Five Ways is the largest co-educational grammar school in the West Midlands, and one of the top five co-ed grammar schools nationally. Headteachers The school has had 11 Headmasters and 2 Headmistresses in its history. Revd Egerton Francis Mead MacCarthy 1883 – 1916 Arthur Ernest Barker 1916 – 1933 Charles Henry Dobinson 1933 – 1945 (afterwards Reader in Education at Oxford University and Tutor in the University Department of Education) Harry Robert Roach 1946 – 1951 Thomas Charles Burgess 1951 – 1963 (Oversaw move to Bartley Green; died in post) Roland Mathias 1964 – 1969 Peter Rodney Watkins 1969 – 1974 Geoffrey Sanders 1974 – 1990 Revd John G. Knowles 1990 – 1999 Peter Limm 1999 – 2002 David Wheeldon 2002 – 2012 Yvonne Wilkinson 2012 – 2021 Charlotte M. Jordan 2021 – Yvonne Wilkinson was Acting Headmistress from September to December 2002, the first Headmistress in the school's history, although as she served in an acting capacity for only one term it was not properly a Headmistressship. She returned as the first actual headmistress from the start of the 2012–2013 school year, after a headship at Gateways School, Leeds. Entry Pupils must pass an 11-plus entrance exam to get into the school. The King Edward Schools are academic powerhouses and therefore fiercely competitive to get admission. The entrance examination is tough and only 1 in 10 is successful. The King Edward VI Foundation holds its exams at the same time, and generally a candidate will sit one exam for multiple schools within the foundation. Formerly 155 were selected from each year, from more than 1,500 candidates; with a few more accepted every year on appeal. From September 2014 the school increased its intake to 180 pupils in Year 7. A pupil has the opportunity to list the Foundation schools that he or she prefers, and depending on the results, may get allocated into one of the schools. Students can also enter the school at sixth form level, though they do not have to take a test for this. Instead, places are awarded based on GCSE grades, requiring at least a 7 in any subject you wish to take, 8 in Maths to take Further Maths, and a 6 in