Ages 16-18

Sixth Form

Two years that feel like university, run like a family, and remembered like the best years of your life - because for most of our students, that's exactly what they are.

Close teaching

A physics class of two. A chemistry class of four.

These are not marketing numbers; they are our actual timetable. Sixth Form study at Llandovery is closer to an Oxbridge tutorial than a school lesson: your work read properly, your thinking challenged personally, your teacher unable - and unwilling - to let you drift.

It shows. In 2026, a 97.8% A-level pass rate from a non-selective intake, top grades up from 20% to 32.8% at A*-A, students placed at leading universities, and an EPQ programme where 70% took an A. We publish where our students started as well as where they finished - because distance travelled is the only honest measure of a school. See our university destinations (PDF) →

A-levels and BTECs, chosen around the student, with a science partnership at Swansea University.
University and careers guidance that starts with who you are, not where we'd like to boast you went.
Entry: five GCSEs at grade 5+, grade 6+ in your A-level subjects - plus a conversation, because you are more than your grades.

Students celebrating results with the Warden

Sixth Form students at Llandovery College

Leading

In a school this size, the Sixth Form runs things.

Our sixth formers are not passengers waiting for UCAS day. They captain the teams, direct scenes in the productions, command in the CCF, mentor the Year 7s in their House, and carry real responsibility for the tone of the College.

They also see the world while they're at it: exchanges to Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, sports tours from Vancouver to Rosslyn Park, choir tours that have filled Barcelona Cathedral, and expeditions that start where our forty-five acres end and the wild Wales begins.

Boarding in the Sixth Form means increasing independence in senior houses - a deliberate halfway house between home and university, with adults nearby who know you well.

Scholarships

Talent, backed properly.

Scholarships at Sixth Form entry - Academic, Sport, Music, Drama and Art - recognise genuinely exceptional talent, with fee remission alongside dedicated coaching, mentoring and performance opportunity. If your child has a rare gift, talk to us.

Academic Sport Music Drama Art For exceptional talent

Sixth Form

A physics class of two. A chemistry class of four.

In a school this size, the Sixth Form runs things.

Talent, backed properly.

Spend a day in the Sixth Form before you choose one.