Hailsham Community College is the only secondary school in Hailsham. The school is a dual specialist Sports College and Business and Enterprise College. Hailsham Community College consists of a secondary school for pupils aged 11–16 and then a Sixth Form College for students aged 16–18. There are currently around 1160 pupils at HCC. Hailsham Community College has five buildings, a main block, science block, craft block and youth block, as well as an extensive sports hall. The sports hall is a million pounds lottery-funded building which was built in 2006. The school is split up into five different houses: Torvill, Jackson, Bannister, Grey-Thompson and Redgrave.
The college has a pathway system in which select students are able to take their GCSE exams a year early.
The college believes in high standards, respect for others, hard work, self discipline and active involvement in the life of the community. Its successes have been recognised by national awards and considerable parental support. In addition the exam results continue to improve with some outstanding performances in the recent ‘A’ level and GCSE examinations.
In 2006 HCC was awarded the prestigious Sportsmark standard for its work in PE and within the wider community. In June 2007 it gained the Healthy Schools Gold standard, in recognition of its work to support the health and wellbeing of the students.
The college became an academy on the 1st of August 2012.
Recently the school changed the uniform to blazers, shirts and ties.
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