Queen Elizabeth Grammar School

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Queen Elizabeth Grammar School is a coeducational selective grammar school in Penrith, Cumbria, England. The school currently has approximately 830 pupils.Each year group is split on to four forms that have usually 31 students each. Forms are named by the year groups number and then the form tutor's initials making the form be called 7BW. There are also three house which are mainly used for sport events.HistoryIt moved from its original premises in St Andrew's churchyard to its present site on Ullswater Road, close to the railway station, in 1917. It is Cumbria's only grammar school.AdmissionsThe admission process is through an Eleven Plus style exam, which tests mathematics, verbal reasoning and non-verbal reasoning or spatial intelligence. The top 128 applicants are offered places at the school. If a student at the school decides to leave their place if offered to a child who nearly made it into the top 128 of that year group.Notable former pupils Lawson Soulsby, Baron Soulsby of Swaffham Prior, Microbiologist Charlie Hunnam, British Actor Oliver Turvey, Racing Driver Will Addison, Rugby Player Sarah Hall, Novelist