Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School is an independent day school of over 1000. There is a Junior School of 150 with 850 boys and 50 Sixth Form Girls in the Main School. It has its own bus service and draws pupils from a wide area of North Lancashire, its catchment area being thirty miles wide and twelve deep. It is an academically-orientated school annually sending a goodly number of students to Oxford and Cambridge but expecting to see into universities almost all of its Upper Sixth. Equally the School is involved in a wide range of extra-curricular activities, including sport, societies and overseas travel. It has been on its present site for a century, is deeply rooted in the local community and has close connections with industry, commerce and the professions. New building costing ú5m over the past decade has included a sports hall, a swimming pool and, in 1995, a bespoke Sixth Form Centre.
