Totton College
Totton College logo
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The Water Lane entrance of the college.
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| Mottoes |
Leading Learning, Sharing Success |
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| Established | 1955 |
| Type | Further education college |
| Principal | Maxine Room |
| Chair of Governors | Mike Hawker |
| Location |
Water Lane Totton, Southampton Hampshire SO40 3ZX England 50°55′16″N 1°30′29″W / 50.92099°N 1.50805°WCoordinates: 50°55′16″N 1°30′29″W / 50.92099°N 1.50805°W |
| Local authority | Hampshire County Council |
| DfE URN | 130699 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Students | 1,400 full-time, 5,000 part-time as of 2012[update] |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 16+ |
| Website | www |
Totton College is a further education college located in Totton, Hampshire, providing courses for mainly 16- to 19-year-olds as well as adult education courses. These include BTECs, NVQs, GCSEs and Access courses. Courses are also available to students aged 14 and above who would benefit from additional hands-on experience and training in addition to their mainstream learning. A range of accredited professional and leisure courses are available to adults both in the daytime and evening.
Opening in 1955 as Totton Grammar School, it became a sixth form college in 1969 and continued to expand their campus from the late 1980s onwards. Its main campus is off Water Lane in Totton, but it also has three other campuses in the Totton area and one other campus in the nearby Waterside area. The college previously offered a range of A-level courses but these were stopped from September 2015. The college merged with social justice charity, Nacro, in December 2015.
Totton Grammar School opened as a secondary school in the spring term of 1955 and was run by the Hampshire County Council. As with many other Grammar Schools, entry to the first year, or first form, was conditional on passing the national 11-Plus examination, normally at the age of 11 or 12. With a nationally fixed school-leaving age of 16, pupils generally went on to complete their O-level examinations in the fifth form. After that, the more academically-inclined pupils from any secondary school in the area could apply to stay on for a further two years, in what were known as the lower-sixth and upper-sixth forms, to sit A-levels.
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