Brighton and Hove schools and admissions data

Brighton and Hove City Council has 68 primary schools and 27 secondary schools. 18% of Brighton and Hove's schools are private schools. 48 state schools in Brighton and Hove follow the local authority's admissions criteria, while 21 set their own.

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Ofsted ratings
in Brighton and Hove

  1. Outstanding 8
  2. Good 52
  3. Requires Improvement 6
  4. Inadequate 1

Most popular state schools
in Brighton and Hove in 2019

  1. Primary
  2. Secondary
  1. 1

    Hertford Junior School

    Community school • Brighton

    Ofsted: Requires Improvement

  2. 2

    Balfour Primary School

    Community school • Brighton

    Ofsted: Requires Improvement

  3. 3

    Homewood College

    Community special school • Off Lewes Road, Brighton

    Ofsted: Requires Improvement

  4. 4

    St Mary Magdalen Catholic Primary School

    Voluntary aided school • Brighton

    Ofsted: Good

  5. 5

    St Mark's CofE Primary School

    Voluntary aided school • Brighton

    Ofsted: Requires Improvement

  6. 6

    Moulsecoomb Primary School

    Community school • Moulsecoomb, Brighton

    Ofsted: Inadequate

  7. 7

    Hertford Infant and Nursery School

    Community school • Brighton

    Ofsted: Good

  8. 8

    City Academy Whitehawk

    Academy sponsor led • Whitehawk, Brighton

    Ofsted: Good

  9. 9

    St Bartholomew's CofE Primary School

    Voluntary aided school • Brighton

    Ofsted: Good

  10. 10

    Brunswick Primary School

    Community school • Hove

    Ofsted: Good

  11. 11

    Hangleton Primary School

    Community school • Hove

    Ofsted: Good

  12. 12

    Mile Oak Primary School

    Community school • Portslade, Brighton

    Ofsted: Requires Improvement

  13. 13

    Brackenbury Primary School

    Community school • Portslade, Brighton

    Ofsted: Requires Improvement

  14. 14

    St Martin's CofE Primary School

    Voluntary aided school • Brighton

    Ofsted: Good

  15. 15

    Elm Grove Primary School

    Community school • brighton

    Ofsted: Good

  16. 16

    Coombe Road Primary School

    Community school • Brighton

    Ofsted: Good

  17. 17

    St Peter's Community Primary School

    Community school • Portslade-By-Sea, Brighton

    Ofsted: Good

  18. 18

    Bilingual Primary School - Brighton & Hove

    Free schools • Hove, Brighton and Hove

    Ofsted: Good

  19. 19

    St Nicolas CofE Primary School

    Voluntary aided school • Portslade, Brighton

    Ofsted: Good

  20. 20

    St Margaret's CofE Primary School, Rottingdean

    Voluntary aided school • Rottingdean, Brighton

    Ofsted: Good

  1. 1

    St. John's College (Brighton)

    Special post 16 institution • Brighton

    Ofsted: None

  2. 2

    Downs View Life Skills College

    Special post 16 institution • Patcham, Brighton

    Ofsted: None

  3. 3

    Longhill High School

    Community school • Rottingdean, Brighton

    Ofsted: Good

  4. 4

    Dorothy Stringer School

    Community school • Brighton

    Ofsted: Good

  5. 5

    Cardinal Newman Catholic School

    Voluntary aided school • Hove

    Ofsted: Good

  6. 6

    Patcham High School

    Community school • Brighton

    Ofsted: Good

  7. 7

    Brighton Aldridge Community Academy

    Academy sponsor led • Brighton

    Ofsted: Good

  8. 8

    Portslade Aldridge Community Academy

    Academy sponsor led • Portslade, Brighton

    Ofsted: Good

  9. 9

    King's School

    Free schools • Hove

    Ofsted: Good

  10. 10

    Varndean School

    Community school • Brighton

    Ofsted: Good

Popularity is based on the number of first preference applications a school received compared to the number of places available, where we have this data. Where places available data isn't held, first preferences are compared to the number of offers made.

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