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Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet was founded in 1573 for local boys of the parish of Barnet by Queen Elizabeth I with help from Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and local alderman Edward Underne .In practise it became a fee paying school and was based in Wood Street in Barnet after the Second World War it moved to a larger plot in Queen's Road in Barnet.
After time as a comprehensive school from the 1960s it became a Grammar School again in the 1990s, and under headmaster Eamon Harris went on to be the top state school for A-Levels in the late 1990s.
Currently under Dr. John Marincowitz (since 1999), it has continued to expand.
Queen Elizabeth's School compromises of six school houses, named after famous old boys and school Governors. They are Broughton, Harrison, Leicester, Pearce, Stapleton and Underne.
