In 1908, one hundred and eighty-nine years after the foundation's initial formation, King Edward VII School was opened to provide an education for local boys.

At the outbreak of the Second World War, KES pupils spent time digging trenches and building air raid shelters in the sand dunes for both themselves and their neighbours at Queen Mary School.

[1] Due to the amount of evacuees arriving at both KES and QMS, increased cooperation ensued between the two schools, with classes mixing frequently and sharing of classrooms and space a regularity.

The sixth form began to hold shared lectures, debates and dances, paving the way for the joint dining hall to be opened.

The new building was to release space for more classrooms at both schools and would allow the King Edward's dining hall to become the library.

King Edward VII School moved from the direct grant grammar scheme to independence shortly thereafter.

He obtained first-class in his final classical examination, and left Oxford in 1890, becoming master, for one term, at Sutton Valence School.

Bompas-Smith also wrote works of considerable interest to those in the scholastic profession, two of them being Boys and their management in school[3] and A new junior arithmetic[4]".

Since opening in 1908, the school's crest showed a hand or arm bearing a sword (said to be Excalibur), rising from the waves of a deep blue ocean.

The new shield was parti-per-pale and shows the Sublimis Ab Unda crest of KES on one side and a newly designed badge for QMS on the other side.In December 1901, the trustees of The Lytham Schools Foundation passed the following resolution: "It is desirable to erect within the Ancient Parish of Lytham a good Secondary School for Boys in which special attention is given to Modern Languages, Mathematics and Science, and that it be part of the Scheme to provide Lecture and Class Rooms for evening instruction including Agricultural School.

Once construction on QMS was completed, two new tram stops were added on Clifton Drive South, so that access to the two schools was improved drastically.

[1] The facilities and grounds of KES were regularly updated and developed throughout the 1950s and 1960s, with 'The 1960's block' built to house new departments in Music, Food Technology, Mathematics and English.