Queen Elizabeth's High School
The school crest
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| Motto | Officium omnes adligat (Service links all) |
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| Established | 1589 1983 (merger) |
| Type | Community grammar school |
| Headmaster | David Allsop |
| Deputy Headmaster | Peter Russell |
| Chairman of the Governors | D. S. Holmes |
| Founder | Sir Robert Somerscale |
| Location |
Morton Terrace Gainsborough Lincolnshire DN21 2ST England Coordinates: 53°24′38″N 0°46′39″W / 53.410664°N 0.777519°W |
| Local authority | Lincolnshire |
| DfE number | 925/4065 |
| DfE URN | 120655 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Staff | c. 100 teaching, 28 support |
| Students | c. 1200 |
| Gender | Mixed |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Houses | Austen, Brunel, Churchill, Darwin, Elgar and Scott |
| Colours | Red (Elgar), Gold (Austen), Blue (Churchill), Purple (Brunel), Silver (Scott), Green (Darwin), |
| Publication | The Q.E. News |
| Former Pupils | Old Ganians |
| Website | QEHS Website |
Queen Elizabeth's High School (QEHS) is a grammar school in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire in the East Midlands of England. It was established by Sir Robert Somerscale in 1589. During the last 400 years the school site has moved from a small setting in the local All Saints Church, to Cox's Hill (where the Hickman Hill hotel is now located) and finally settling on the Morton Terrace Technical College site towards the north of the town, where the boys' grammar (Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School) merged with the girls' school (Gainsborough High School) to form the current set-up of QEHS in 1983.
The school annually admits 180 students into Year 7 and 150 into Year 12; around 1000 students make up the lower school (of those aged 11–16) and another 250 make up the sixth-form (16–18). Approximately 700 of those attending are girls and 500 are boys. The current headmaster of the school, David Allsop, was a former student. He took over from David Smart in 2009 who himself took over from John Child in 2006.
Along with the majority of British secondary schools, students at QEHS will usually take ten or eleven GCSE examinations in Year Eleven and provided that they achieve satisfactory grades will be allowed to enter the sixth-form to take four A-Level qualifications. A number of external students are also admitted to the sixth-form each year. An Ofsted inspection in 2008 described the school as "outstanding". League tables released by the BBC also rank the school highly; ratings based on English Baccalaureate results place QEHS joint ninth, for A/AS-level points per pupil third, and adjusted for Value Added nineteenth, in Lincolnshire. The BBC A-Level league tables rank QEHS second best in Lincolnshire, second only to Caistor Grammar School. The majority of sixth-form students at QEHS go on to higher education with many gaining Medicine places and a number each year getting offers from Oxbridge.
It runs clubs at lunchtime and after school in the library. One of these is STEM Club (Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths). http://stem-club.co.uk (A student-made website)
Although the details are unclear, Gainsborough appears to have had a small grammar school from the 15th century provided by the local clergy, where possibly several of the Pilgrim Fathers received their early education; among its alumni was John Robinson. Lessons were first held in a room above the porch of the original All Saints church. Many of the school's early records were lost during the reign of Charles I, owing to the prominent Puritan sympathies of many associated with the school who sought to avoid detection, and so had the incriminating records destroyed.
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