United Kingdom / Regions / Lewes
Lewes
South East, England · population ~104k · 34 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 21 legacy-graded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
State-funded schools in Lewes
34 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 (21 of 34 here), 100% 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. A further 1 school (2.9% of the LA) has been re-inspected under Ofsted's new post-Sept-2024 report-card framework; those judgements appear separately on each school's row below.
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 34 schools.
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Seaford Head School | Secondary | 1,448 | Outstanding· | 16/11/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Priory School | Secondary | 1,163 | Good· | 08/11/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Peacehaven Community School | Secondary | 903 | Good | 03/10/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Chailey School | Secondary | 855 | Good· | 20/01/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Seahaven Academy | Secondary | 745 | Good | 11/11/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Cradle Hill Community Primary School | Primary | 659 | Good· | 04/07/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
King's Academy Ringmer | Secondary | 642 | Not graded | 13/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Telscombe Cliffs Academy | Primary | 565 | Not graded | 14/01/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Harbour Primary and Nursery School | Primary | 460 | Not graded | 12/03/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Meridian Community Primary School and Nursery | Primary | 456 | Good | 11/06/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Seaford Primary School | Primary | 408 | Good· | 23/03/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Peacehaven Heights Academy | Primary | 373 | Not graded | 26/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Ringmer Primary and Nursery School | Primary | 361 | Good | 28/06/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Chyngton School | Primary | 354 | Good | 10/05/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Wallands Community Primary and Nursery School | Primary | 305 | Good | 21/09/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Southover CofE Primary School | Primary | 270 | Good· | 24/01/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Wivelsfield Primary School | Primary | 255 | Good· | 09/03/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
South Malling CofE Primary and Nursery School | Primary | 228 | Good· | 20/05/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Denton Community Primary School and Nursery | Primary | 226 | Not graded | 13/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Ditchling St Margaret's Church of England Primary School | Primary | 224 | Not graded | 12/03/2025 | 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.