Construction 4 (590 students), Information technology 2 (450 students), hair and beauty 2 (350 students), Arts 1 (219 students), literacy numeracy and English for non-native speakers (ESOL) 3 (418 students). On 25 November 2011 Ofsted inspected Sussex Coast College giving it a Grade 4 (Inadequate). Inspectors returned in January 2013 and found many improvements. The overall grade was moved up to a Grade 3 (Requiring improvement). As of 2014 Ofsted inspection graded Sussex Coast college Hastings grade 2 (Good) for overall effectiveness, outcome for learners and quality of teaching, grade 1 (outstanding) for effectiveness of management. Hastings campus redevelopment In the early 2000s, plans were evolved to reform educational provision in Hastings and more widely in Sussex, for 6th form and older students. These plans called for the development of two sixth form colleges to replace 6th forms attached to individual schools. Other colleges would be sited in Bexhill and Battle. It was decided that one of these would be created within the existing Hastings college and was named 'Academy 6'. The second Hastings college was never created, in part because of resistance by local schools and parents to relinquish their own successful 6th forms. With the advent of compulsory education up to the age of 18, the additional student numbers encouraged schools to expand their own provision. As part of these plans, it was decided to consolidate Hastings college on a new main site at Station Plaza. This also provided a location for an NHS building offering medical services and a hall of residence forming part of the University of Brighton, with other Brighton University premises and an expanded public library nearby. The Archery Ground The main campus of Hastings College was for many years at Archery Road in St. Leonards. Planning applications were made to redevelop this 2.2 hectare site for residential use, as part of an overall plan to move the main college campus to Station Plaza. This experienced considerable difficulties because the largely modern college had been constructed in the centre of James and Decimus Burtons' St Leonards holiday resort development, dating from the 1830s. The college had been built in the 1960s on a site which had been used as a quarry for Burton's building work and then been transformed into a park and formal gardens as part of the original design. It was known as the Archery Ground because of the local archery association