[3][4][5] 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.

[8] The school was founded in 1573 by Queen Elizabeth I, petitioned by Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and assisted by local alderman Edward Underne.

[11] The trustees of Elizabeth Allen's Charity, which had been established by her will dated 10 February 1725, gave financial assistance to save it from a state "very ruinous and unfit for habitation".

[13] As the number of pupils outgrew the capacity of Tudor Hall, so the school was transferred in 1932 to a new site in Queen's Road, which backed on to the Stapylton Field.

[14] A more recent blue plaque was erected by the London borough of Barnet which dictates: This Tudor Hall housed the free grammar school of Queen Elizabeth I who granted its charter in 1573.

[citation needed] In April 2000, this led a group of current and former pupils to create a website where they could talk about their experiences.

[18] The current system uses 'bad notes' sent directly to parents via e-mail if a pupil repeatedly shows poor behaviour.

A particularly muddy part of the cross-country route, suitably nicknamed the 'Elephant Dip', owing to its extreme depth in wet weather, links the Byng Road Open Space (Barnet RFC) and the north-west gate of the bottom fields, however there is also a paved route turning right from the gate and going down Byng Road towards the Open Space.

[23] In 2008 QE again topped the league table in A-level results and a record number of 37 pupils gained a place at Oxford and Cambridge.

[24][25] In January 2014, Barrie Martin, Chairman of the QE Governing Body and the Friends of Queen Elizabeth's was awarded an MBE for 'Services to Education'.

[26] Headmaster Neil Enright described Martin as: 'an asset to QE in so many ways, combining a tireless work ethic with tremendous focus and an utterly reliable good nature'.

[citation needed] 2016 would make the eighth year in the past decade that the school achieved the top spot in the A-Level league tables, solidifying its position at the forefront of the modern British educational scene.

[citation needed] During the Second World War the athletics coach Franz Stampfl taught physical education at the school until his internment in 1940 as an enemy alien.

[39] The school justified these requests by saying that state funding was not sufficient to provide a sound education and "the polish for boys to go on to the best universities".