Twenty years of excellence: Queen Elizabeth’s School continues to shine as pupils deliver a golden set of A-level results
Year 13 pupils have maintained a formidable record of consistent A-level excellence, with the proportion of grades at A*–B hitting 98% – the 20th consecutive year this benchmark figure has been above 95%.
As in other recent years, leavers shone at the very highest levels: once again, over half of all grades (51%) were A*– up 4% on even the best pre-pandemic year. Among the 174-strong Year 13 cohort, which is QE’s biggest-ever, 51 boys – or 29% – achieved straight A*s. Eighty-five per cent of grades awarded were A* or A.
Headmaster Neil Enright said: “Huge congratulations go to our students on these brilliant results. At QE we see consistent excellence every year, with our boys turning in superb examination performances and duly securing places on highly sought-after courses at world-leading universities.”
Over the past three years, QE pupils have received 157 offers from Oxford and Cambridge, including 49 (28% of the year group) this year. More widely, 62% hold offers from QS World Top 10 universities (which include Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial College and UCL); 22 of the 24 Russell Group universities offered places to QE boys.
The most popular choices of degree courses among QE leavers were for Mathematics, Medicine & Dentistry, Engineering, and Economics. In addition, 14 boys secured offers for computing courses: they include leavers who will be taking up confirmed places at Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial and Warwick.
In a growing trend, QE students are winning places on prestigious degree apprenticeships: this year, offers have come from companies including Goldman Sachs, Amazon, Deloitte, Jaguar Land Rover, and PWC.
And there is striking breadth in individual achievements, with one place secured at a music conservatoire (the Royal Northern College of Music’s joint course with Manchester University) and another at the highly competitive Foundation Art course at Central St Martins (University of the Arts London).
“Such widespread success among our boys is made possible by the whole QE experience,” said Mr Enright. “All our leavers have benefitted from our emphasis on free-thinking scholarship; and from the support in finding their future career and university path offered through our QE Futures programme, which benefits from the backing provided by our alumni network. Through a detailed programme of bespoke pastoral support, and through the broad co-curricular opportunities offered by our exciting QE Flourish programme, boys grow into confident, able and responsible young men. It is the combination of all these elements that is enabling our students to realise their boundless potential.”
“All our leavers take with them our very best wishes for the future. Today, and in the coming weeks, support will, of course, be available from the School for any who need it.
“Looking further ahead, we look forward to seeing the cohort become active members of our alumni community, QE Connect, joining the ranks of thousands of other alumni who are Elizabethans for life.”
