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Durham Sixth Form Centre

Sixth form / 16–19Ages 16–19AcademySixth form

Durham, DH1 1SG · County Durham local authority

Durham’s School Grade A better than 92% of towns in England

How full
1,747 pupils
87% of its 2,000 places
Free school meals
0%
0 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Durham Sixth Form Centre

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • 0% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 25%)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (DH1 1) sold for a median £185,000; Durham’s is £220,000

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

1,708 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.

SEN support
3.7%England 15.3%
EHC plan
0.2%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
2.7%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
0%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 62%Boys 38%
Its letter

No letter for Durham Sixth Form Centre

Sixth-form and 16–19 colleges aren’t given a letter: the letters compare primary (KS2) and secondary (GCSE) results.

Letters go to England’s open mainstream state schools with published Key Stage 2 or GCSE results (grammar schools included), each against the schools of its own phase.

Ofsted

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Not inspected yet (a new school, or one that changed status recently).

Living nearby

Living near Durham Sixth Form Centre

For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.

Home prices in DH1 1, the school’s postcode sector

Durham property prices →
£185,000
median sale, 303 sales in 36 months · Durham £220,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£150K£200K£250K2010201520202025DH1 1Durham
DH1 1Durham

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£320K
Semi-detached
£185K
Terraced
£168K
Flat
£115K
DH1 1Durham

Homes in DH1 1 sell for well under Durham’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.

Schools within 1.6 miles

15 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNA−DC−AABAAA+BAACB−Durham Sixth Form Centre
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Durham, DH1 1SG

Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.

A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Durham’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.