It is situated to the west of Wimborne Minster alongside the National Trust's Kingston Lacy estate and serves a wide area.

Students travel from as far afield as Sixpenny Handley near Salisbury to the north, Alderholt on the Hampshire border to the east and Blandford Forum to the west.

QE has a house system of students Lancaster (red) Stuart (purple) Tudor (green) Wessex (blue) and York (yellow) Queen Elizabeth's was founded by Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443–1509), the mother of Henry VII.

Her father, John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, occupied the Kingston Lacy estate in the mid-15th century[1] and Lady Margaret was brought up there.

[8] As part of this sweeping change Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School merged with Wimborne Secondary Modern and moved to the present site.

Additional funding was secured by making the new building a demonstration project for sustainable schools - features included a ground-air heat exchanger system and biomass boilers.