Entry Requirements for 2025

Admission to Leventhorpe Sixth Form September 2025

Leventhorpe Sixth Form is popular with students who attended the school from years 7-11 as well as with applicants from other schools in the area.  We aim to take up to 180 in Year 12 with roughly equal numbers of internal applicants and those from other schools.

Our curriculum is broad, with extensive choices in the area of business and enterprise specialism. Our courses are offered at level three only, with the exception of English and Maths GCSE retake (level 2). We offer A’ Levels, BTEC qualifications, IFS financial qualifications and the Extended Project Qualification (EPQ).

We have a two year structure of study, sometimes known as linear, with examinations taken at the end of the second year.  AS examinations will not usually be taken and teaching schedules will not prepare students with AS examinations in mind.

The expectation for most students is that they will take three principle subjects for two years (some BTEC subjects are “double” and count as two of the three choices) and an enhancement option.  Committed and able mathematicians may wish to add Further Mathematics as a fourth qualification.  We also offer Core Mathematics, Certificate of Financial Studies and the Extended Project Qualification, Music Technology, Sports Leaders and the Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award which can be added as an enhancement.  Finally, students who have not passed English and Mathematics GCSE to level 4 will have to retake those examinations.  These retakes would be in addition to three main level three qualifications.

The ethos of our sixth form is welcoming and inclusive, but we are committed to academic excellence and to ensuring that students follow appropriate courses and so we apply admission rules to courses to ensure that applicants have reached a sufficiently firm foundation for success.  Applicants will need to reach specific grades or levels in order to be able to choose particular subjects and in addition, will need to score 40 points or more across their best eight qualifications.

We are a full-time only sixth form and so an applicant has to have the grades to pick three main level three subjects if they are to join us.

*All students will be given the opportunity to study an enrichment qualification alongside their A Level or BTEC offer.