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# Queen Elizabeth High School

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](https://eduatlas.org/#vacancies).

- **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
- **Local authority:** Northumberland
- **Location:** Hexham, NE46 3JB, United Kingdom
- **Telephone:** 01434610300
- **Website:** [qehs.net](http://www.qehs.net/)
- **Register number:** URN 143291 ([register entry](https://get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/Establishments/Establishment/Details/143291))
- **Ofsted:** Good, inspected 30 April 2024

## Vacancies (1)

- [Exams Office Administration Assistant](https://eduatlas.org/jobs/1tl5ejc788r-exams-office-administration-assistant) · Salary £12,199 to £12,393 a year · Closes 23 Nov · Part time · Administration and business · 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 |

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% |

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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## Sources

Register details and head: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools. Inspection: Ofsted. Results: Department for Education performance tables. Vacancies: public job services and the school's own website, checked continuously. Nothing here is estimated.

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