League Table Success for Blackpool Sixth Form

The Blackpool Sixth Form College has achieved another spectacular increase in its league table performance based on exam results in 2009 and continues to be the best college or state-funded sixth form in the Fylde for the average score per student.

Pictured above: Students receiving their results in August 2009

Six hundred and seventy two students took their qualifications with the College last year, the vast majority studying the equivalent of 4 A levels. On the key measure of average point score per student, there has been an increase of over 30 points to 897.8 and the average point score per examination entry has also risen nearly 8 points to 205.2. This is further evidence of the extremely high levels of achievement for its largest ever cohort of A level and BTEC students.

The College cites its emphasis on encouraging all its students to progress to excellent Higher Education and career routes as one of the main reasons which supports the increases.

The Principal, Felicity Greeves, comments: “We instill in our students right from the very start of their courses the desire and discipline to do as well as possible and pursue their ambitions. Their achievement means that they are in control of their futures and can choose the University courses or other routes which they most want to take. Nearly all our students last year achieved their first choice university courses.”

Other reasons for the College’s continuing success are the excellence of its teaching and learning and the quality of its support and guidance for each individual student. Both aspects were graded as “outstanding” in the Ofsted inspection of May 2009 which awarded the College an overall Grade 1: Outstanding.

The College also performed extremely well on the “value-added” measure which shows how much progress students make during their time at the College. The College’s score on this measure has risen a full 5 points to 998.4.