Ashton Sixth Form College  Ashton Sixth Form College Darnton Road

Ashton Sixth Form College has been providing quality education to school leavers for many years and continues to grow and develop to meet the demands of local 16 to 19 year olds.Ashton Sixth Form CollegeThe College is a major provider of the highest quality academic and vocational education in the area. A recent report found that much stronger progress is made by students studying within a sixth form college than in any other post-16 environment and this is certainly reflected in the results achieved by students at Ashton Sixth Form College.We currently have 2000 students on a range of courses including AGCEs and vocational programmes at advanced, intermediate and foundation levels and we boast some of the best results for AS levels, AGCE and Diplomas in the area.The College also caters for around 1000 part-time adult students per year on courses from Level 1 to Higher Education. Part-time courses for adults are run on site from late afternoon or in the evenings or at community venues and out at employer premises during the day.Our college community includes over 200 dedicated staff who are focused on ensuring that all our students have every opportunity to learn, enjoy and achieve at college and ultimately progress successfully to higher education, employment or training.We measure our examination success using a system known as ALPS (Advanced Level Performance Systems). ALPS measures our performance, based on previous exam results, against other colleges throughout Britain.Our value-added score ranks us in the top 25% of schools and colleges against the national benchmark. This indicates outstanding value-added performance in our institution relative to the benchmark.Ashton Sixth Form College continues to go from strength to strength and provide the best education and training for young people within Tameside.Reasons to choose Ashton Sixth Form College:- Our success rates are well above the national average. Our results place the college in the top 25% of schools and colleges in the country for outstanding results.- We have consistently outstanding and significantly above average high grades on Level 2 and Level 3 vocational programmes.- Sixth form colleges provide an environment where students make much stronger progress than by those in other post-16 providers.- We are the largest provider of Level 3 courses in the area which gives students a diverse range of academic and vocational subjects to choose to study.- There is an expanding Lifelong Learning division of the college which provides quality adult education with a wide course offering including Foundation Degrees, NVQs in Child Care or Teaching Assistant, Customer Service and ICT, Maths and English courses.