QEHS students earn outstanding GCSE and A-Level results and the school is over-subscribed. Alternative secondary education is provided by The Gainsborough Academy, a school that opened in a £25 million building in Corringham Road in September 2009 as Trent Valley Academy and changed its name in July 2014. From 2010, both secondaries, along with Lincoln College and the Aegir School, a new local special school, deliver the new diplomas at Level 2 and Level 3 through the 14-19 Gainsborough Partnership, an organisation offering educational opportunities in the Gainsborough area.