Long Road Sixth Form College

ABOUT LONG ROAD SIXTH FORM COLLEGE

• Part of the Newly formed Sixth Form Colleges Trust as of September 2024

• Established in 1974 on the site of the former Cambridgeshire High School for Girls. Approx. 2,500 students, almost all 16-19.

• Turnover will be £15 million next year.

• A member of the Cambridge Area Partnership of secondary schools, Colleges and special schools. Please see the link to Cambridge Area Partnership: https://www.cap14-19.org.uk/

• Almost all courses are at levels 2 and 3, with 84% of enrolments being for level 3 courses. Over 25 A level subjects are available at the College, while Applied courses are offered in a range of vocational areas using OCR Cambridge Technicals, WJEC and BTEC qualifications.

• Approx. 180 staff, including full and part-time teachers and managers and full and part-time support staff.

• The site is situated on the Addenbrookes Biomedical Campus, 23 acres of land on the southern boundary of Cambridge City. It has 3,000 trees with some areas of dense woodland, there is a planted arboretum with some quite rare trees including an Indian Bean Tree and a Giant Redwood.

• Ecological studies have shown up to 20 bird species frequent the site along with a wide variety of mammals including dear, badgers and foxes and of course the ubiquitous rabbit of which there are hundreds.