welcome to our Highcrest Sixth Form
Sixth Form 2025/2026
Welcome to the Sixth Form section of our website.
We hope that you find the information on this website useful, whether you are viewing it as a current Sixth Form student or someone interested in joining us in September 2026.
We are very proud of our Sixth Form and the journey we have undertaken to be where we are today. Starting only 16 years ago as a Sixth Form with only a few courses available, we are now an institution that provides education for over 170, 16-18 year olds across over 20 subjects that are both academic and vocational.
Our most recent Ofsted inspection highlighted the Sixth Form as a strength of the school and this has been backed up with strong results over the years, namely in 2017 where our results put us as the number 1 Sixth Form in the whole of Buckinghamshire (including Grammar schools!) for value added. This alongside our brand new Sixth Form Centre and our breadth of subjects, make The Highcrest Academy Sixth Form a really attractive place to learn.
The aim of our Sixth Form is to allow our students the opportunity to further themselves so that when they leave Highcrest, they are ready to take the next step in their journey. Whether the next step is university, an apprenticeship or into the workplace we aim to ensure all have the necessary skills and qualifications to succeed.
The key to achieving this is ensuring that students are set up to succeed from the very start. We do this by making sure they are placed on the right courses for them — both in terms of their academic starting points and their future aspirations. Our enrolment process is deliberately thorough and begins with our Sixth Form Open Evening, which we recently held in early November. It then continues throughout the year with pre-enrolment interviews, taster days, and opportunities for applicants to speak directly with our current Sixth Form students.
We offer a wide range of Level 2 and Level 3 BTEC courses, as well as A Levels. GCSE retake options in Maths and English are also available for students who did not achieve a grade 4 in their Year 11 exams.