Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Horncastle, is a selective, co-educational, foundation status Grammar School and Sixth Form College in the market town of Horncastle, Lincolnshire. In 2003, Queen Elizabeth's gained joint specialist status for science and mathematics in partnership with Banovallum School, Horncastle's secondary modern school. A second specialism for modern languages was added in 2008. As of January 2009, there were 877 pupils on roll, of whom 271 were studying in the Sixth Form.
Although royally chartered by Queen Elizabeth I in 1571, there had at this time already been a formal school in Horncastle for 250 years. The original charter document, with its royal seal, remains in the custody of the school's governors.
The school's catchment area includes the town of Horncastle and the surrounding area up to and beyond Wragby, Bardney and Woodhall Spa to the west, the Lincolnshire Wolds to the north and east, and almost to Boston in the south. It also includes the children from RAF Coningsby.
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