Mottoes Spes Durat Avorum Headteacher Mr Graeme Atkins Phone +44 1434 610300 Motto Spes Durat Avorum Number of students 1,358 | Established 1599 DfE number 929/4417 Founded 1599 Gender Mixed-sex education | |
Type Comprehensive community school Location Whetstone Bridge Road
Hexham
Northumberland
NE46 3JB
England Address Whetstone Bridge Rd, Hexham NE46 3JB, UK Similar Haydon Bridge High Sch, Prudhoe Community High Sch, Hexham Middle School, Corbridge Middle School, Ponteland Community High Sch | ||
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Queen Elizabeth High School (QEHS) is a community high school and Performing Arts College in Hexham, Northumberland, England.
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History
The school was founded in 1599. Thomas Stackhouse, afterwards an Anglican clergyman and theologian was headmaster of the school from 1701 to 1704. The school is in a federation with Hexham Middles School. The head of school is Andrew Byers and Graeme Atkins, the federation Executive Headteacher, as of September 2014.
Admissions
It has 1422 students, of whom 498 are in the sixth form. Northumberland LEA currently operates a three-tier system, so QEHS has students aged between 13 and 18.
The school is part of the Tynedale Virtual College, a collaboration between the four high schools in the Tyne Valley and Northumberland College. The TVC seeks to provide vocational learning across the area.
It is situated just off Allendale Road (B6305) in the west of Hexham.
Academic performance
On 21 April 2012 an Ofsted inspection judged the school to be 'Good'.
It gets above average GCSE and A level results, with the third highest at GCSE in Northumberland. In November 2014, Queen Elizabeth High School was said to be the fifth best state school in the north east of England.