Queen Elizabeth High School is a secondary academy in Hexham, United Kingdom with 1,299 pupils, part of Hadrian Learning Trust. Ofsted: Good, inspected 30 April 2024. As of 10 November 2026 it is advertising 1 vacancy: Exams Office Administration Assistant (closes 23 November).
Listed on EduAtlas: the school’s official record and its live vacancies. 1 live vacancy.
Head
Katie Innes
Trust or group
Hadrian Learning Trust
Type
Academy, Secondary
Pupils
1,299 pupils · 47% girls · 12.9% eligible for free school meals · 2.7% with English as an additional language DfE school census, 2025/26
Special needs
52 (4.0%) on SEN support · 43 (3.3%) with an education, health and care plan DfE, Special educational needs in England, 2025/26
We are a high performing Multi Academy Trust looking to grow and develop talented individuals that wish to specialise in the operations side of our Academy. We are seeking to…
Exam results
Year
Attainment 8
Grade 5+ Eng. & maths
2025/26 provisional
49.4
52.9%
2024/25
50.7
52.8%
2023/24
54.3
61.9%
Department for Education performance tables. Attainment 8 is the average score across eight GCSE-level subjects (out of 90). Grade 5+ is the share of pupils with grade 5 or above in both English and maths. Provisional figures can change when the revised tables are published. Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 or 2025/26.
Inspections
Date
Inspection
Outcome
30 April 2024
Graded inspection
Good
21 March 2019
Short inspection
Remained Good
Ofsted. Inspections graded schools Outstanding, Good, Requires improvement or Inadequate until August 2024. From September 2024 there were no overall grades; since November 2025 a report card grades each area: exceptional, strong standard, expected standard, needs attention or urgent improvement.
Staff
Year
Teachers
Pupils per teacher
Leavers
Vacancies
Average pay
2025/26
75.8
17.1
–
0
£52,380
2024/25
82.5
15.8
12%
0
£49,273
2023/24
72.2
17.8
7%
0
£46,442
2022/23
72.2
18.0
8%
0
£44,130
2021/22
68.8
19.5
12%
0
£41,303
2020/21
68.2
19.3
17%
0
£40,708
Earlier years (2016/17 to 2019/20)
Year
Teachers
Pupils per teacher
Leavers
Vacancies
Average pay
2019/20
69.1
18.8
15%
0
£38,305
2018/19
71.3
18.1
12%
0
£38,953
2017/18
72.0
17.5
10%
0
£40,021
2016/17
74.7
16.9
14%
0
£37,864
Department for Education, School Workforce Census. Teachers are full-time equivalent. "Leavers" is the share of teachers who moved to another state school or left state schools by the following November, so the latest year has none yet. Vacancies are posts vacant or filled temporarily on census day in November. Average pay is for all teachers, leaders included.
Attendance
Year
Sessions missed
Unauthorised
Persistently absent
Severely absent
2025/26
8.8%
3.2%
20.4%
4.5%
2024/25
8.3%
2.2%
22.1%
3.1%
2023/24
8.5%
2.2%
24.1%
2.3%
2022/23
8.4%
1.8%
23.8%
2.0%
2021/22
8.1%
1.2%
23.5%
2.0%
2020/21
4.2%
0.9%
7.8%
0.8%
Earlier years (2016/17 to 2018/19)
Year
Sessions missed
Unauthorised
Persistently absent
Severely absent
2018/19
5.4%
0.9%
11.8%
1.4%
2017/18
4.9%
0.8%
9.9%
1.4%
2016/17
4.5%
0.8%
7.9%
0.8%
Department for Education, pupil absence statistics, autumn and spring terms of each year so years compare. Persistently absent: share of pupils who missed 10% or more of sessions. Severely absent: share who missed half or more. There are no figures for 2019/20 (school closures).
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