About Our Sixth Form
The Harris City Academy Crystal Palace Sixth Form offers co-educational high quality teaching in a positive learning environment in which all students are encouraged to strive for academic excellence.
We strongly believe All Can Achieve and are dedicated to providing our sixth form students with the commitment, dedication and resilience to do so, both with us and beyond us at university, in apprenticeships and in the world of work.
Our curriculum offers a broad range of academic courses as well as some applied general and technical level courses. All are delivered by subject specialists with a focus on developing the skills of collaborative and independent learning.
We are part of the Harris Central Sixth Form, which is made up of ten campuses with almost 2,000 students, making us one of the largest Sixth Forms in London. One benefit of our size is that we are able to provide a wealth of opportunities for our students that simply cannot be found elsewhere.
View our official school data for our 16-19 provision. Download a summary document (pdf) about our Sixth Form.
Staffing
Mrs Bond, Faculty Director/Assistant Principal
Ms Gatty, Head of Year 13
Dr Chapman, Head of Year 12
Ms Russell, Attendance and Welfare Officer, Sixth Form
Ms Christodoulou, Sixth Form Study Supervisor
Support in the Sixth Form
The needs of any SEND students will be met through specific support, and any disadvantaged or vulnerable students will have access to our bursaries, providing financial assistance for vulnerable students, as well as our discretionary bursary which is available to students from households with incomes below a certain threshold. Our students use the sixth form bursary to purchase books, revision resources, transport to and from school, and to pay for education trips and uniform.
Results and destinations
In the academic year 2023-24:
- 98% of our students passed their A-Level and CTEC qualifications, with 44% achieving grade A*-B or equivalent and 28% achieving A*-A or equivalent.
- Our Year 13 students achieved 146 A*, A or B grades in total last summer; a result of students' intense hard work and dedication.
- Seven of our Year 13 students achieved straight A* and As and are continuing their study in fields such as medicine, dentistry, engineering, and physics at universities including Queen Mary, UCL, Imperial College, Birmingham, and LSE.
- In our CTEC qualifications (Business, Media, Sport), 79% of the qualifications were awarded Dist* or Dist; grades that have allowed our students to gain exciting places at university or, increasingly, choosing to take up places on apprenticeship programmes once leaving the Academy, as these can provide the opportunity to gain a degree whilst working. These have included many at prestigious and highly competitive firms such as Deloitte, KPMG, and Google.
