Welcome to Arden Sixth Form

Applications for Arden Sixth Form are now open for September 2025

The deadline for applications is: 3:30pm 7th February 2025

(All applications received after this time will be treated as ‘Late’ and are significantly less likely to be successful.)

Please visit our Application Hub to find out more about the application process and to apply online:

Academic excellence within an outstanding and supportive environment

Arden is justifiably proud of its impressive reputation for being one of the best performing comprehensive schools in the country and our Sixth Form one of the key elements that makes us a wonderful place to learn and grow. Our Sixth Form ethos is to achieve academic excellence within an outstanding and supportive environment.

Teaching and learning at Arden is of the highest quality: it is delivered by inspiring, highly dedicated specialist teachers to students who want to make the best of every opportunity. We provide tremendous opportunities for students who recognise the value of learning and who have the drive and ambition to reach their full personal, professional and academic potential

We are particularly proud of the fact that, at Arden, a fully structured pastoral support network is in place to guide your decision-making, support your progress and to help you plan for the next steps to fulfilling your aspirations.

The choices you make at this stage can have a profound effect on your future. A key step is choosing where to study. The superb academic performance of our Sixth Form students, which has been maintained throughout the challenges of the past two years, attests to the superb choice that Arden would be for you. Arden welcomes students who are diligent, hardworking, ambitious and independently minded - young adults who deserve the finest education we can deliver.

If you work with us, Arden Sixth Form will provide you with the academic success and personal development you are searching for. We will work tirelessly to help you develop into a happy, successful adult with a brilliant future open to you.

Dan White

Assistant Headteacher / Head of Sixth Form