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, Director of Sixth Form (Personal Development)
Ms Savage, Director of Sixth Form (Quality of Education)
Ms Russell, Attendance and Welfare Officer, Sixth Form
Ms Mair, 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
Of all A-Level and CTEC qualifications taken by Year 13 students in academic year 2024-25:
- 54% of all A-Level and CTEC qualifications overall achieved A*-B grades or equivalent
- 42% of all A-Level entries at Harris Crystal Palace this year achieved top A*-B grades
- 17% of all A-Level grades were the top A*-A grades
- 87% of CTEC entries achieved the top Distinction*-Distinction grades
- 78% of the year group decided to progress on to university and, of those students, 28% of those gained places at either Oxbridge, Russell Group universities or the highly prestigious University of Bath or Loughborough University.
Read more about our student's individual successes here:
Uzair (left) who achieved A*A*A and is going to study Computer Science at Kings’ College London.
Oscar (right), who achieved A*A*A*A* and will start a degree level apprenticeship at Microsoft.
Taahseen who achieved A*A*A*A and is going on to study Engineering at the University of Cambridge.
Belina who achieved A*A*Distinction* and is going to study Real Estate at the University of Reading
Cherise who achieved A*AC and is going to study Neuroscience at the University of Warwick
Liam who achieved A*AA and is going to study Mechanical Engineering at Queen Mary University London
Patricia who achieved A*AB and is going to study Pharmacy at University of Bath
Nickolas who achieved A*AB and is going to study Mechanical Engineering at Loughborough University
Zaynab who achieved A*BB and is going to study Architectural and Interdisciplinary Studies at UCL
Annalise who achieved A*AB and is going to study Journalism at the University of Brighton
Dipanshu who achieved AAB and is going to study Mechanical Engineering with Placement at Brunel University
Ademide who achieved D*D*B and is going to do a degree apprenticeship at Turner and Townsend for Level 6 Quantity Surveying
Ty who achieved D*D*D* and is going to study Sport Management and Coaching at University of Bath
