Varndean College, Brighton is a popular and successful sixth form college with over 1450 students aged 16 to 18. In the evenings it opens its doors to the community to offer a wide range of courses. Full or part-time Access courses have places for up to 60 mature students and the college is increasingly popular with international students. The college was founded in 1884 in York Place, Brighton, as a boys' Secondary School and moved to its current site (overlooking the city and the sea) in 1932, later attaining grammar school status, becoming Varndean Grammar School for Boys, administered by the Education Committee for the County Borough of Brighton. In 1972 the first girls were admitted to the school (a small number of girls attended A level physics classes at the school in 1970–71), and in 1975 it became a sixth form college under its first principal, David A.G. Turner.