Type sixth form college Principal Dr Janet Nevin Phone +44 161 330 2330 Number of students 2,000 | Established 1980 Founded 1980 | |
Former names Ashton-under-Lyne Grammar School Location Ashton-under-Lyne,
Greater Manchester,
England Address Darnton Rd, Ashton-under-Lyne OL6 9RL, UK Profiles | ||
Ashton-under-Lyne Sixth Form College is a sixth form college located in Ashton-under-Lyne in Greater Manchester, England.
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Admissions
The college mostly accepts students graduating from the two secondary schools in Ashton-under-Lyne, as well as from the larger Tameside area. Courses offered by the college include A-levels, AGCEs and Diplomas.
It is situated near Mossley Road (A670) near the junction with Queen's Road (B6194) near Tameside General Hospital.
History
The building opened in 1928 as the co-educational Ashton-under-Lyne Grammar School. It had around 600 boys and girls in the 1960s, and 800 in the early 1970s, and 950 by the time it closed with 250 in the sixth form. It was run by Lancashire Education Committee until 1974, then Tameside Metropolitan Borough.
Sixth form college
It became a sixth form college in 1980 when most schools in Tameside became 11–16 schools.
Academic performance
There are only four places to take A-levels in Tameside: two further education colleges and two 11–18 schools. The college has achieved A-level results that have been slightly above the national average, but the college currently ranks third in the mini-league table of institutions offering A-level courses in Tameside. In the 2012 academic year 92% of students received three A level passes or the equivalent.[1]