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  • Queen Elizabeth's Hospital
    Berkeley Place
    Clifton
    Bristol
    BS8 1JX
  • Head: Rupert Heathcote
  • T 01179 303040
  • F 01179 293106
  • E [email protected]
  • W www.qehbristol.co.uk
  • A mainstream independent school for boys aged from 11 to 18 with a linked junior school
  • Read about the best schools in Bristol
  • Boarding: No
  • Local authority: Bristol
  • Pupils: 660; sixth formers: 222 (156 boys; 66 girls)
  • Religion: Not Applicable
  • Fees: £18,240 pa

    Fees last updated: 27/06/2024

    Please note school fees are subject to VAT from January 2025. During this transition period, please contact school for full fee information.

  • Open days: November and March
  • Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
  • Linked schools: Queen Elizabeth's Hospital Junior School

What says..

School makes much of the virtues of single sex education; they apply as much to the performing arts as to academic matters, where boys in their younger teens are free to express themselves artistically without fear of ridicule from peers or girls. An unashamedly academic school with expectations to match. From the outset boys are set in maths, and sciences are taught separately leading to GCSE – no dual science options here. Absolutely stunning new laboratory suite, especially the biology labs whose corridor ends on a...

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What the school says...

QEH is a small school with only 600 boys in the Senior School and 100 in the Juniors. It is academically selective but not socially exclusive. Academic results for boys are second to none in Bristol and the South-west. A-level results generally put QEH amongst the top schools in the country. The school is well situated, in Clifton, close to city centre facilities. ...Read more

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All-through school (for example 3-18 years). - An all-through school covers junior and senior education. It may start at 3 or 4, or later, and continue through to 16 or 18. Some all-through schools set exams at 11 or 13 that pupils must pass to move on.

What The Good Schools Guide says

Headmaster

Since 2020, Mr Rupert Heathcote BSc PGCE, previously second master at King Edward’s School Birmingham. Brought up in the idyllic setting of Monkton Combe just outside Bath, Mr Heathcote boarded at the school even though his parents lived in the village. ‘I could see my house from my sixth form room!’ he said in tones of wonder. A degree in geography from Nottingham, preceded by time as a ‘gappie’ in a school, led on to a couple of years at Accenture as an IT consultant. It was then, as he sat at a vast boardroom table, that he asked himself ‘what on earth I was doing’. After a flexible PGCE at Liverpool Hope University on Accenture’s time, his career path was set.

Significantly, that career has unfolded predominantly in boys’...

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Special Education Needs

Condition Provision for in school
ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder Y
Aspergers Y
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders Y
CReSTeD registered for Dyslexia
Dyscalculia Y
Dysgraphia Y
Dyslexia Y
Dyspraxia Y
English as an additional language (EAL) Y
Genetic Y
Has an entry in the Autism Services Directory
Has SEN unit or class Y
HI - Hearing Impairment Y
Hospital School
Mental health Y
MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty Y
MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment Y
Natspec Specialist Colleges
OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability
Other SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty Y
PD - Physical Disability Y
PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty
SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health Y
SLCN - Speech, Language and Communication Y
SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty
Special facilities for Visually Impaired
SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty Y
VI - Visual Impairment Y

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