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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 67 state schools: 47 primary, 10 secondary, 2 nursery. Between them they teach around 28,912 pupils. 52 have enough published data for a score, averaging 4.1 out of 10, and 1 score 8 or above.

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.

Good or better

41

of 45 rated

Average score

4.1

out of 10

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.

Patcham High School Good · ×0.73 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Blatchington Mill School Good · ×0.78 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Stanford Primary School Good · ×0.84 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) Benfield Primary School Good · ×0.9 1st prefs/place (2026/27) St Margaret's CofE Primary School, Rottingdean Good · ×0.9 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Dorothy Stringer School Good · ×0.91 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Patcham Infant School Good · ×0.91 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.

Aldrington CofE Primary School Hove 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 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 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 King's School Hove 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 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 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 St. John's College (Brighton) Brighton · Good Stanford Primary School Brighton · Good Tarnerland Nursery School Brighton 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

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Brighton 59 schools Hove 17 schools

Key dates

Entry year	Event	Date
Sept 2028	Application deadline	31 October 2027
Sept 2028	Primary application deadline	15 January 2028
Sept 2028	Offer day	1 March 2028
Sept 2028	Primary offer day	17 April 2028
Sept 2027	Application deadline	31 October 2026
Sept 2027	Primary application deadline	15 January 2027
Sept 2027	Offer day	1 March 2027
Sept 2027	Primary offer day	16 April 2027
Sept 2026	Application deadline	31 October 2025 (passed)
Sept 2026	Primary application deadline	15 January 2026 (passed)
Sept 2026	Offer day	2 March 2026 (passed)
Sept 2026	Primary offer day	16 April 2026 (passed)

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