QE High Accolades

The School has achieved widespread national recognition for its achievements in recent years.

QE High Accolades
2011 JulyQueen Elizabeth’s sends a greater proportion of its students to Oxbridge than any other state school in England. Sutton Trust research into top university placements also ranks QE as the only state school among the top 37 independent schools in England. Sutton Trust finds QE sends 87% of its pupils to the most selective universities and as such is the top state school in England and 13th including independents.

2011
March

OFSTED inspectors once again confirmed Queen Elizabeth's status as an "outstanding" school marking 15 years of sustained excellence in OFSTED reports.
2011 MarchFinancial Times Top 1000 Schools: QE Top state school in England. The FT’s is the most demanding measure of all league tables as it measures the schools' performance in difficult “core” academic subjects.
2010Secretary of State for Education invites an application from, and subsequently grants, Academy status to Queen Elizabeth's School.
2009 OctoberCambridge newspaper "Varsity" ranks Queen Elizabeths's 8th of top 20 Schools (state and independent) for admissions to Cambridge university.
2009DCSF Sportsmark Award.
2009Top State School in England at A Level in Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail. Top State School in London in the Evening Standard.
2009English Chess Federation award Queen Elizabeth's the prestigious "British Chess Educational Trust Award".
2009 MaySecretary of State for Education presents QE with the Evening Standard “School of the Year” award for Academic Excellence.
2009 AprilQueen Elizabeth’s award of Training School status takes effect.
2009 MarchFinancial Times Top 1000 Schools: QE ranked 5th among Independent and State Schools.
2008DCSF award Queen Elizabeth's "High Performing Specialist School" status.
2008A record 37 boys take up places at Oxbridge.
2008Top State School in England at A Level in Daily Telegraph, The Times. Top State School in London in the Evening Standard.
2008Investors in People status re-recognition.
2008Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector for Schools named Queen Elizabeth’s as an “Outstandingly Successful School.
2007OFSTED subject inspection of Music Department judged “outstanding”.
2007Top State School at A Level in London in Evening Standard and Daily Telegraph.
2007Top State School in England in Financial Times’s ‘traditional A Levels listing’.
2007Sunday Times “State School of the Year”.
2006DfES top school in London and record in England for Key Stage 3 "Added Value".
2006Top State School in England at A Level in Daily Telegraph.
2006Secretary of State for Education presents QE with the Evening Standard “School of the Year” award for Academic Excellence.
2005Investors in People status re-recognition.
2005Top State School in England at A Level in Daily Telegraph.
2004Award of Music Specialist School status.
2004Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector for Schools named Queen Elizabeth’s as an “Outstandingly Successful School".
2004Top State School in England at A Level in Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail.
2003Top State School in England at A Level in Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail.
2003DfES Achievement Award.
2002DfES Achievement Award.
2002Investors in People status re-recognition.
2001Top state school in London at A Level in Evening Standard.
2001DfES award of Beacon School status.
2001DfES Achievement Award.
2001Sunday Times “State School of the Year”.
2000Top state school in England at A Level in The Times, Daily Telegraph, Independent and London Evening Standard.
2000Financial Times rates Queen Elizabeth's the "Flagship Grammar".
2000Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector for Schools named Queen Elizabeth’s an “Outstandingly Successful School".
1999Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector for Schools named Queen Elizabeth’s an “Outstandingly Successful School".
1996National Training Award: top-rated organisation in England for "Excellence in the training of its employees".
1996Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector for Schools named Queen Elizabeth’s an “Outstandingly Successful School by comparison with schools in similar circumstances".

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