Academy · Lincolnshire
Queen Elizabeth's Grammar Alford, A Selective Academy
- Secondary
- Ages 11–18
- Selective (11+)
- Sixth form
- Term dates checked
Term dates
This school's own term dates broadly match Lincolnshire council's, so the council's dates are shown here. INSET days can differ, so check the school's calendar for those.
2026/27
2027/28
Admissions
Places for Year 7 are applied for through your home council, not the school.
Apply for a secondary school place on GOV.UK
Selective school: Year 7 entry is by an entrance test (the 11+). Registration for the test usually closes in the summer of Year 5.
For the sixth form, apply to the school directly.
How many families applied: Year 7
For September 2026, 86 families put this school as their first choice, and 68 places were offered. 61 of the families who put it first got a place (71%). More families put it first than there were places.
| Entry | Places offered | Put it first | Got their first choice |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | 68 | 86 | 71% |
| September 2025 | 85 | 105 | 76% |
| September 2024 | 75 | 89 | 70% |
Offers made on national offer day, from the Department for Education. Waiting lists and appeals can change things later. The hardest schools to get into.
11+ entrance test
This school uses Lincolnshire Consortium of Grammar Schools 11+, a shared test used by 13 other schools. Your child sits one test, and the result is shared with every school in the group that you apply to.
Ofsted inspection
Report card, 6 May 2026. Ofsted now grades each area separately, from exceptional to urgent improvement, with no single overall grade.
- Inclusion
- Expected standard
- Curriculum and teaching
- Expected standard
- Achievement
- Expected standard
- Attendance and behaviour
- Expected standard
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Expected standard
- Sixth form
- Expected standard
- Leadership and governance
- Expected standard
Safeguarding standards: met.
Previous inspection, 23 November 2021. Overall: Good
From Ofsted's published inspection data (Open Government Licence). Report cards and older grades use different scales, so they can't be compared directly.
About and location
- Type
- Academy
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Pupils
- 565 (capacity 628)
- Gender
- Mixed
- Academy trust
- QUEEN ELIZABETH'S GRAMMAR, ALFORD, A SELECTIVE ACADEMY LIMITED
- Admissions
- Selective (entrance test)
- Phone
- 01507462403
- Address
- Station Road, Alford, LN13 9HY
- Website
- qegs.co.uk
School details from the Department for Education's register of schools (Open Government Licence). Report a correction.