United Kingdom / Regions / Brighton and Hove
Brighton and Hove
South East, England · population ~292k · 63 state-funded schools
Median full-time pay
ONS ASHE residence basis · 2025
Median house price
ONS HPSSA-9 · Year ending Sep 2025
Median monthly rent
ONS PIPR · 2026-03
Council tax (Band D)
MHCLG / Welsh Gov · 2026-27
Crime per 1,000
ONS PFA · Year ending Dec 2025
IMD score
MHCLG IoD · 2019
Schools Good+ (legacy)
Legacy 1-4 grades only · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
Schools Outstanding
Of 48 legacy-graded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
State-funded schools in Brighton and Hove
63 schools listed by DfE GIAS, with current judgements from the Ofsted Feb 2026 Management Information snapshot. Among schools with a current legacy Ofsted 1-4 grade (48 of 63 here), 92.6% of pupils attend schools rated Good or Outstanding — combining full OEIF graded inspections and ungraded check-ins that confirmed the school remains at its last grade.
The Last inspection column shows the most recent activity per school — graded inspection, check-in, or new-framework report card. Ofsted retired the single 1-4 grade in September 2024; new inspections produce multi-axis "report card" judgements (Leadership, Achievement, Curriculum, Behaviour, Personal development, Inclusion, Safeguarding) that aren't directly comparable to the legacy 1-4. Where a school has both an older 1-4 grade and a fresh report card, the 1-4 is shown for continuity but the report-card sub-judgments below it are the current finding. The "·" mark next to a grade indicates the value came from an ungraded check confirming the school's last full grade still applies.
Showing 20 of 63 schools.
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Cardinal Newman Catholic School | Secondary | 2,625 | Good· | 08/10/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Blatchington Mill School | Secondary | 1,635 | Good· | 23/02/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Dorothy Stringer School | Secondary | 1,626 | Good | 10/10/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Varndean School | Secondary | 1,497 | Good | 05/10/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Patcham High School | Secondary | 1,099 | Good· | 19/04/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Hove Park School and Sixth Form Centre | Secondary | 948 | Good· | 09/12/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Portslade Aldridge Community Academy | Secondary | 928 | Good· | 17/11/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
King's School | Secondary | 903 | Good | 22/03/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Brighton Aldridge Community Academy | Secondary | 813 | Not graded | 23/04/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Longhill High School | Secondary | 723 | Requires Improvement | 19/03/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Balfour Primary School | Primary | 682 | Good | 06/12/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Goldstone Primary School | Primary | 674 | Good· | 04/07/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Hove Junior School | Primary | 673 | Good· | 17/06/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Brunswick Primary School | Primary | 671 | Requires Improvement | 18/06/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
St Andrew's CofE (Aided) Primary School | Primary | 651 | Not graded | 20/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
St Luke's Primary School | Primary | 625 | Not graded | 11/03/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Bilingual Primary School - Brighton & Hove | Primary | 598 | Good· | 08/12/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Saltdean Primary School | Primary | 564 | Good | 16/04/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
West Hove Infant School | Primary | 505 | Not graded | 19/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Downs Junior School | Primary | 499 | Good | 07/11/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
How we sourced this
Indicators: Pay (ONS ASHE residence), house price (ONS HPSSA-9 median for England + Wales, UK HPI mean for Scotland), rent (ONS PIPR newly-signed lets for E+W, Scot Gov 2-bed advertised median for Scotland), council tax (MHCLG England + Welsh Gov Wales), crime (ONS PFA, E+W only), IMD (MHCLG IoD 2019, England only), school quality (Ofsted % of pupils in schools currently rated under the legacy 1-4 framework as Good or Outstanding, combining full OEIF grades with ungraded check-ins — England only. Schools re-inspected under Ofsted's new post-Sept-2024 report-card framework are excludedfrom this denominator and shown separately on each school's row).
Schools: joined from DfE GIAS edubasealldata snapshot (2026-05-13, the canonical UK school registry) with Ofsted's Management Information snapshot (Feb 2026, current grades and pupil counts). Coordinates converted from OSGB36 (British National Grid) to WGS84 using the standard Helmert 7-parameter transformation.
Editorial position: we surface the uncomfortable facts (knife crime per 1,000, IMD deprivation, Band D bills) alongside the affordability story. No estate-agent gloss. Where methodologies differ across UK nations (rents, deprivation, council tax) we disclose the difference rather than silently merging.
Some indicators show "—" for Scotland / Wales / Northern Ireland because each nation publishes equivalents on a different methodology that explicitly cannot be cross-compared per official guidance.