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59 open schools in Brighton, Brighton and Hove · Ofsted ratings, catchment areas and admission criteria · see all Brighton and Hove schools · grammar schools in Brighton

Brighton has 59 state schools: 39 primary, 10 secondary, part of Brighton and Hove's wider catchment. 48 have a published Ofsted rating, and 35 of those are rated Good or Outstanding.

Average score
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) 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) St Nicolas CofE Primary 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.

Brighton straddles a council boundary: the scheme above is Brighton and Hove's, and West Sussex also has schools here, applying under its own.

Balfour Primary School Brighton · Good Benfield Primary School Brighton · Good Bevendean Primary School and Nursery Brighton · Not judged Brackenbury Primary School Brighton · Good Brighton Aldridge Community Academy Brighton · Not judged Brighton College Brighton Brighton College Prep School Brighton Carden Nursery and Primary School Brighton Carlton Hill Primary School BRIGHTON · Good City Academy Whitehawk Brighton · Good Coldean Primary School Brighton · Good Coombe Road Primary School Brighton · 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 Eastbrook Primary Academy Brighton · Not judged Elm Grove Primary School Brighton · Good Fairlight Primary School Brighton · Good Glebe Primary School Brighton · Good Hamilton Lodge School and College for Deaf Children Brighton · Good Hertford Primary School Brighton · Not judged Hill Park School Brighton · Outstanding Kings Brighton Brighton 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 Bernadette's Catholic Primary School Brighton 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 Varndean College Brighton · Good Varndean School Brighton · Good Westdene Primary School Brighton · Not judged Woodingdean Primary School Brighton · Good

Key dates

Entry yearEventDate
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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