Queen Elizabeth's Grammar Alford - A Selective Academy, Alford

Ofsted's report card from its 6 May 2026 inspection grades Queen Elizabeth's Grammar Alford - A Selective Academy on 7 areas: 7 expected standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Achievement - Expected standard. "Pupils are well prepared with the knowledge, skills and qualifications to make positive next steps in education, employment or training."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Leaders have successfully promoted the importance of school attendance."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Leaders have a generally accurate understanding of the quality of the curriculum and teaching."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders build effective partnerships with parents and carers to build a well-rounded understanding of pupils' needs when they join the school."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders and staff have realised trustees' vision for the school."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Pupils highly value the pastoral support at the school."

Post 16 provision - Expected standard. "For the most part, leaders have ensured that the curriculum in the sixth form is generally well designed."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should ensure that all areas of the curriculum are planned and delivered effectively so that pupils can explore and progress well across all areas of the curriculum, including religious education"; "Leaders should improve the way staff identify and support pupils who need to improve their handwriting"; "Leaders should ensure that their evaluations of educational provision are informed by checks of the impact of the curriculum and teaching on pupils' learning and achievement".

In 2026, pupils at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar Alford - A Selective Academy averaged an Attainment 8 score of 59.9, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 45.9 in Lincolnshire and 47 across England.

75% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 43% in Lincolnshire and 47% in England.

That is in line with 2025, when the score was 60.5.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was 0.28: pupils made above average progress compared with pupils nationally who started secondary school at the same level. Progress 8 was not published for 2026.

Disadvantaged pupils averaged an Attainment 8 of 48.3, against 62.3 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 14 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 18 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Religious Studies, Geography and German.

Queen Elizabeth's Grammar Alford - A Selective Academy is a grammar school: places go to children who reach the required standard in its entrance test, and only then are the oversubscription criteria applied.

For September 2026 entry, 86 families put Queen Elizabeth's Grammar Alford - A Selective Academy as their first choice and 194 named it as one of their preferences, for 68 places offered. That is 1.3 first choices for every place. 25 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

Queen Elizabeth's Grammar Alford - A Selective Academy admits pupils through an entrance test, usually called the 11-plus. Children have to be registered for it in advance, normally in the spring or summer of Year 5; the test itself is usually sat in September of Year 6, and results come out in October, before the 31 October deadline for naming secondary schools.

Passing the test makes a child eligible rather than guaranteeing a place: when more children pass than there are places, Queen Elizabeth's Grammar Alford - A Selective Academy ranks them by the criteria in its admissions policy, which can include test score and distance. Check Lincolnshire's admissions pages and the school's own policy for this year's registration deadline - a child who is not registered in time cannot sit the test.

Lincolnshire has 15 state grammar schools in all, so a child who passes may have several selective schools to choose between.

Of the 93 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 97% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 22% to a further education college and 1% to an apprenticeship.

Of the 52 students who left the sixth form in 2023/24, 64% went on to university or other higher education, 8% to apprenticeships and 19% into work. 36% went to one of the most selective third of universities.

16.1% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well below the average state school (25%), and 2.1% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (84%) and Mixed (7%).

In 2026, 26 pupils (4.6%) received SEN support and 4 (0.7%) had an education, health and care plan, against 16.2% and 4.6% at the average state school. The most common need among them is social, emotional and mental health needs.

There is no railway, tram or Underground station within about three miles of Queen Elizabeth's Grammar Alford - A Selective Academy.

20 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Queen Elizabeth School (outside), 50 metres away.

In 2024/25, Queen Elizabeth's Grammar Alford - A Selective Academy issued 7 suspensions, 1.3 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.