South East
Secondary schools in Brighton and Hove
77 schools, 33,154 pupils. Average Attainment 8 across the authority's state secondaries is 38.
Ofsted across Brighton and Hove
Good31
Requires improvement3
Outstanding2
No overall grade41
36 of these schools carry a one-word grade from before September 2024, when Ofsted stopped awarding them. The remaining 41 either have no published outcome or were inspected under the current framework, which does not give an overall grade. What changed.
Secondary schools in Brighton and Hove
Sorted by Attainment 8. A gap of a point or two is noise, not a ranking — read the school pages for the intake-adjusted comparison.
| School | Area | Ofsted | Attainment 8 |
|---|---|---|---|
| King's SchoolFree schools | Hove | Good 2022 | 53.7 |
| Dorothy Stringer SchoolCommunity school | Brighton | Good 2023 | 53.3 |
| Blatchington Mill SchoolCommunity school | Hove | Good 2022 | 51 |
| Cardinal Newman Catholic SchoolVoluntary aided school | Hove | No grade | 50.4 |
| Varndean SchoolCommunity school | Brighton | Good 2022 | 48.8 |
| Patcham High SchoolCommunity school | Brighton | Good 2023 | 45.5 |
| Portslade Aldridge Community AcademyAcademy sponsor led | Brighton | No grade | 42.7 |
| Hove Park School and Sixth Form CentreCommunity school | Hove | No grade | 41.1 |
| Brighton Aldridge Community AcademyAcademy sponsor led | Brighton | No grade | 36.2 |
| Longhill High SchoolCommunity school | Brighton | Requires improvement 2024 | 32.9 |