Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet (often referred to as QE Boys) is a selective state Academy day grammar school for boys aged 11–18. It was founded in 1573 by Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, and others, in the name of Queen Elizabeth I, and is located on a 23 acres (9.3 ha) site, in Barnet, in north-west London.
From 2006 onwards, the School's Estates Strategy, currently running from its 450th anniversary in 2023 until 2035, has made improvements to the school's facilities, which include a multi-purpose concert/assembly hall, a recital hall, a 200-seat drama studio and lecture theatre, a 25-metre 8-lane swimming pool, additional classrooms and a library which has tripled in size. Much of the additional funding needed for the new facilities has come from a charitable trust, The Friends of Queen Elizabeth's, which receives donations from former pupils, parents and other supporters of the School. In 2025, it raised an annual income of £2,211,565.
The School is consistently ranked as one of the most academically successful secondary schools in England, having topped A-level league tables for grammar schools for five consecutive years, as of 2016, and was chosen by the Sunday Times as State School of the Year in 2007. In 2026, it won awards for State Secondary School of the Year, State Secondary School of the Year for Academic Excellence, State Secondary School of the Year for A-levels, State Secondary School of the Year in London and State Secondary School of the Year in London for Academic Excellence.
An Ofsted report published in January 2008 stated: "It is held in very high regard by the vast majority of students and their parents, and rightly so." It has also been a Training school since April 2009 .
