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Schools in Brighton and Hove

77 open schools · Ofsted ratings, catchment areas and admission criteria · best primary schools · best secondary schools

Brighton and Hove has 68 state schools: 48 primary, 10 secondary, 2 nursery. Between them they teach around 29,508 pupils. 53 have enough published data for a score, averaging 4.1 out of 10.

11 have a sixth form. 15 take children from age three or under. 15 have a religious character, which usually means the school sets its own admissions criteria rather than the council's. How the score works.

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Brighton 59 schools Hove 17 schools
Aldrington CofE Primary School Hove · Good Balfour Primary School Brighton · Good Benfield Primary School Brighton · Good Bevendean Primary School and Nursery Brighton · Not judged Bilingual Primary School - Brighton & Hove Brighton and Hove · Good Blatchington Mill School Hove · Good Brackenbury Primary School Brighton · Good Brighton Aldridge Community Academy Brighton · Not judged Brighton College Brighton Brighton College Prep School Brighton Brighton Girls GDST Brighton Hove and Sussex Sixth Form College Hove · Outstanding Brunswick Primary School Hove · Requires improvement Carden Nursery and Primary School Brighton · Good Cardinal Newman Catholic School Hove · Not judged Carlton Hill Primary School BRIGHTON · Good City Academy Whitehawk Brighton · Good Coldean Primary School Brighton · Good Coombe Road Primary School Brighton · Good Cottesmore St Mary's Catholic Primary School Hove · Good Dorothy Stringer School Brighton · Good Downs Infant School Brighton · Not judged Downs Junior School Brighton · Good Downs View Life Skills College Brighton · Requires improvement Downs View Special School Brighton · Outstanding Elm Grove Primary School Brighton · Good Fairlight Primary School Brighton · Good Goldstone Primary School Hove · Good Hamilton Lodge School and College for Deaf Children Brighton · Good Hangleton Primary School Hove · Good Hertford Primary School Brighton · Not judged Hill Park School Brighton · Outstanding Hove Junior School Hove · Not judged Hove Park School and Sixth Form Centre Hove · Good King's School Hove · Good Kings Brighton Brighton Lancing College Preparatory School At Hove Hove Longhill High School Brighton · Requires improvement Middle Street Primary School Brighton · Good Mile Oak Primary School Brighton · Good Moulsecoomb Primary School Brighton · Not judged Our Lady of Lourdes RC School Brighton · Good Oxford International College, Brighton Brighton Patcham High School Brighton · Good Patcham Infant School Brighton · Good Patcham Junior School Brighton · Good Peter Gladwin Primary School Brighton · Good Portslade Aldridge Community Academy Brighton · Good Queen's Park Primary School Brighton · Requires improvement Roedean School Brighton Royal Spa Nursery School Brighton · Outstanding Rudyard Kipling Primary School & Nursery Brighton · Good Saltdean Primary School Brighton · Good St Andrew's CofE (Aided) Primary School Hove · Good St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School Brighton · Good St Christopher's School Hove St John the Baptist Catholic Primary School Brighton · Not judged St Luke's Primary School Brighton · Not judged St Margaret's CofE Primary School, Rottingdean Brighton · Good St Mark's CofE Primary School Brighton · Not judged St Martin's CofE Primary School Brighton · Good St Mary Magdalen Catholic Primary School Brighton · Good St Mary's Catholic Primary School Brighton · Good St Nicolas CofE Primary School Brighton · Good St Paul's CofE Primary School Brighton · Requires improvement St. John's College (Brighton) Brighton · Good Stanford Infant School Brighton · Good Tarnerland Nursery School Brighton · Outstanding Team Domenica Brighton The Montessori Place Hove · Outstanding Varndean College Brighton · Good Varndean School Brighton · Good West Blatchington Primary and Nursery School Hove · Good West Hove Infant School Hove · Not judged Westdene Primary School Brighton · Not judged Windlesham School Woodingdean Primary School Brighton · Good

Undersubscribed schools rated Good or Outstanding

These schools didn't fill on first preference in the latest admissions year, despite an Ofsted rating of Good or Outstanding — worth a look if you're chasing the same handful of famous names everyone else applies to.

Hove Park School and Sixth Form Centre Good · ×0.68 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Patcham High School Good · ×0.73 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Blatchington Mill School Good · ×0.78 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Stanford Infant School Good · ×0.84 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Portslade Aldridge Community Academy Good · ×0.87 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Brackenbury Primary School Good · ×0.89 1st prefs/place (2026/27) St Mary Magdalen Catholic Primary School Good · ×0.89 1st prefs/place (2026/27) St Mary's Catholic Primary School Good · ×0.89 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Aldrington CofE Primary School Good · ×0.9 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Benfield Primary School Good · ×0.9 1st prefs/place (2026/27)

How places are allocated in Brighton and Hove

Primary schools: Explicit: catchment areas are NOT used for infant, junior or primary schools in Brighton & Hove, only for secondary. (source)

Secondary schools: Secondary admissions DO use designated catchment areas, with sibling priority applied within catchment. (source)

Most schools use the local authority's default scheme rather than a school-specific catchment map — see each school's page for its own designated/catchment area where one is published.

Key dates

Entry yearEventDate
Sept 2028 Application deadline 2027-10-31
Sept 2028 Primary application deadline 2028-01-15
Sept 2028 Offer day 2028-03-01
Sept 2028 Primary offer day 2028-04-17
Sept 2027 Application deadline 2026-10-31
Sept 2027 Primary application deadline 2027-01-15
Sept 2027 Offer day 2027-03-01
Sept 2027 Primary offer day 2027-04-16
Sept 2026 Application deadline 2025-10-31 (passed)
Sept 2026 Primary application deadline 2026-01-15 (passed)
Sept 2026 Offer day 2026-03-02 (passed)
Sept 2026 Primary offer day 2026-04-16 (passed)

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