Queen Elizabeth's Girls' School

Academy converter·Secondary school Barnet·EN5 5RR
Composite score
73.2
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#292
National rank
#81
In London
#11
In Barnet
Top 9%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
58.6
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
70%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
83%
% EBacc grade 5+
36%
EBacc average points score
5.40

Ofsted judgements

New framework · Last inspection: 03/02/2026 · Read full report ↗

Achievement
Strong standard
Leadership and governance
Strong standard
Curriculum and teaching
Strong standard
Attendance and behaviour
Strong standard
Personal development and wellbeing
Strong standard
Inclusion
Strong standard
Safeguarding standards
Met
Post-16 provision
Expected standard

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
88%
146 first choices, 204 places
First choices per place
0.72
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
601
any preference, for 204 places
Applications from another council area
20%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.18
00.511.5
1 per place
0.8120220.8320230.6820240.5420250.722026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Queen Elizabeth's Girls' School yet. Barnet does publish allocation figures and we are working through them council by council — we only show a distance once we have found it in the council’s own document.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
11–18
Pupils on roll
1,107
Gender
Girls
Religious character
None
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
22.9%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
32.9%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
6.6%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
0.9%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
7.4%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
20.8%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
14.1
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£8,385
Typical secondary: £7,815

“Typical” = the median secondary school in England. What this means

What pupils do next

The share of this school's Year 11 leavers in education, training or employment for at least two terms afterwards.

In education, training or work
95%
190 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
93%
Apprenticeship
1%
Employment
1%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

School overview

Queen Elizabeth's Girls' School is a girls' secondary school serving Barnet, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. It has 1,107 pupils aged 11 to 18 on roll. The school's average Attainment 8 score in the latest GCSE results was 58.6 — well above the national average (national average: 46). Its Attainment 8 score has fallen by 1.0 points compared with the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it among the top 9% of secondary schools in England.

70% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, well above the national average of about 45%. 83% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. 88% of the families who made Queen Elizabeth's Girls' School their first choice were offered a Year 7 place for September 2026, even though the school made at least as many offers as it had first choices - the rest withdrew, moved or fell outside a priority group. After Year 11, 95% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 7.4%. There are about 14.1 pupils per teacher. Queen Elizabeth's Girls' School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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