South Essex College of Further and Higher Education
South Essex College of Further and Higher Education is a further education in Southend-on-Sea for boys and girls aged 16 to 99.
Luker Road, Southend-on-Sea, SS1 1ND0345 521 2345southessex.ac.ukDenise Brown principal and chief executiveAll details
Ofsted
Ofsted hasn't published an inspection for this school yet.
Results
GCSE results, summer 2019
38 pupils sat their GCSEs. Here is how they did against every state secondary in England.
All GCSE measures, year by year
| Measure | 2019 | Southend-on-Sea | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of Year 11 | 38 | – | – |
| Average GCSE scoreAttainment 8 | 5.3 | 52.3 | 47.8 |
| Progress from age 11Progress 8 | -3.16 | +0.03 | +0.03 |
| Strong pass in English and mathsGrade 5+ in English and maths | 8% | 58% | 44% |
| Standard pass in English and mathsGrade 4+ in English and maths | 11% | 73% | 66% |
| Core subjects scoreEBacc average point score | 0.30 | 4.63 | 4.17 |
| Taking the core subjectsEBacc entry | 0% | 48% | 41% |
| Average GCSE score: pupils who started behindAttainment 8, low prior attainers | 1.7 | – | – |
| Average GCSE score: pupils who started aheadAttainment 8, high prior attainers | 9.9 | – | – |
A level and sixth-form results, 2025
2,624 students finished sixth-form courses.
All sixth-form measures, year by year
| Measure | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2019 | 2018 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Students | 2,624 | 2,578 | 2,426 | 2,477 | 5,231 | 5,216 |
| Average A level points per entryA level APS per entry | – | – | – | – | 21.38 | 14.73 |
| Average A level grade | – | – | – | z | D | E+ |
| Best three A levelsBest 3 A levels APS | – | – | – | – | 20.48 | 19.91 |
| AAB or better in subjects universities likeAAB+ in two facilitating subjects | – | – | – | – | 0% | 0% |
| A level progressA level value added | – | – | – | – | -0.65 | -0.75 |
| Applied general courses: points per entry | 26.35 | 21.51 | 22.63 | 25.39 | – | – |
| T levels: points per entry | – | 19.83 | 24.51 | 28.45 | – | – |
| Stayed and finishedRetained and assessed | – | – | – | 0% | 72% | 42% |
Does every child do well here?
A good school does well by every child, not just on average. Each row compares two groups of pupils here. The grey marks show the same two groups across England. Every gap at this school is smaller than the gap across England. When a group has fewer than about ten pupils, its figures jump around a lot from year to year.
At GCSE, 2019
Low-income means the child has had free school meals at some point in the last six years. A group's figure isn't published when it has fewer than six pupils.
Getting a place
Admissions policy not published.
Each council publishes its own figures on how many families applied and how far away the last child to get a place lived. We are adding councils one at a time. If you have a link to Southend-on-Sea council's admissions booklet, send it to us.
Who goes here
Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.
What pupils do next
After sixth form
Where the 2,275 pupils who left in 2022/23 were a year later.
Among pupils from low-income families it was 59%, compared with 72% for everyone else.
Where the ones heading for university went
Among students from low-income families, 32% went on to degree-level study or training and 2% to a top-third university.
Earlier years
| Destination | 2022/23 leavers | 2021/22 leavers | 2020/21 leavers | 2019/20 leavers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Still in education, work or training | 68% | 67% | 73% | – |
| Education | 18% | 17% | 31% | – |
| Apprenticeship | 9% | 7% | 7% | – |
| Work | 41% | 43% | 34% | – |
| Not in education, work or training | 25% | 25% | 22% | – |
The area around the school
Crime figures come from police.uk. The police record each crime at the nearest of a fixed set of map points rather than the exact spot, so “within 500 m” is only rough. House prices are from HM Land Registry sales nearby over the last two years.
Nearby schools
The closest schools, nearest first. Hover over a row to see it on the map.
| School | Type | Distance | Pupils | Ofsted | Score | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barons Court Primary School and Nursery | Academy | 500 m | 303 | Outstanding 2023 | 100 | Compare |
| St Helen's Catholic Primary School | Academy | 550 m | 420 | Good 2023 | 67 | Compare |
| St Mary's, Prittlewell, CofE Primary School | Church of England | 560 m | 611 | No overall grade 2025 | 14 | Compare |
| Beis Chinuch Lebonos Westcliff | Independent | 650 m | 103 | Not inspected | – | Compare |
| Milton Hall Primary School and Nursery | Foundation | 680 m | 690 | Good 2024 | 7 | Compare |
| Porters Grange Primary School and Nursery | Academy | 720 m | 431 | Good 2024 | 15 | Compare |
| St Bernard's High School | Academy | 840 m | 1,001 | Good 2023 | 82 | Compare |
| Compass Community School Boleyn Park | Independent | 860 m | 8 | Not inspected | – | Compare |
Questions parents ask
Is South Essex College of Further and Higher Education a good school?
We don't have enough published data to score South Essex College of Further and Higher Education yet.
How good are South Essex College of Further and Higher Education's GCSE results?
In summer 2019, 8% of pupils got a grade 5 or better in both English and maths. Across England it was 44%. Its Attainment 8 score, which is the average grade across a pupil's best eight subjects times ten, was 5.3, against 47.8 for England. In each subject, pupils here finished well over a grade behind children across England who started secondary school at the same level.
How many pupils does South Essex College of Further and Higher Education have?
The number of pupils is not published.
These answers come straight from the figures on this page and update when new data comes out.
Contact and details
- Address
- Luker Road, Southend-on-Sea, SS1 1ND
- Telephone
- 0345 521 2345
- Website
- www.southessex.ac.uk
- Principal and Chief Executive
- Denise Brown
- Type of school
- Further education (Further education, colleges)
- Phase
- College, ages 16-99
- Gender
- Mixed
- Local authority
- Southend-on-Sea
- Ward
- Milton
- Constituency
- Southend East and Rochford
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Opened
- 1 January 1900
- URN
- 130672 · LAESTAB 8828000 · UKPRN 10005981
- Formerly
- Prospects College of Advanced Technology, Thurrock and Basildon College
Where these figures come from
- School details: Department for Education, Get Information About Schools, refreshed daily (this page rebuilt 13 September 2026).
- Inspections: Ofsted management information, monthly; latest publication in our data 27 August 2026.
- GCSE results: DfE key stage 4 performance tables, 2018/19 final.
- Neighbourhood: police.uk street-level crime, HM Land Registry price paid data, NaPTAN bus stops, English Indices of Deprivation 2025.
- All under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Full list and update calendar.