The Queen Elizabeth's High School, Gainsborough

Term dates

Lincolnshire council sets the term dates for this school. See all Lincolnshire dates, taken from the council's own page.

• Term
• Holiday
• INSET day
• Exeat

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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, 222 families put this school as their first choice, and 188 places were offered. 183 of the families who put it first got a place (82%). More families put it first than there were places.

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.

How shared 11+ tests work

Ofsted inspection

Latest graded inspection, 13 December 2023. Overall: Good

Quality of education

Good

Behaviour and attitudes

Good

Personal development

Good

Leadership and management

Good

Sixth form

Good

Read the Ofsted reports

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

Community school

Phase

Secondary

Ages

11–18

Pupils

1139 (capacity 1286)

Gender

Mixed

Admissions

Selective (entrance test)

Phone

01427612354

Address

Morton Terrace, Gainsborough, DN21 2ST

Website

qehs.lincs.sch.uk

Official school record, including Ofsted reports