Overall Oxbridge
#488
5 ranked schools · +426 places vs Eng avg #914 of 1,984
Applications
156
Offers
32
Offer rate20.5%
-1.9 pts vs Eng avgEng avg 22.4%
England's original fashionable seaside resort, Brighton grew from the fishing village of Brighthelmstone into a Regency showpiece under the patronage of the Prince Regent, who constructed the Royal Pavilion on the East Sussex coast in the early nineteenth century. The railways reached Brighton in 1841, opening the town to Victorian day-trippers and cementing its reputation as England's foremost coastal destination. Today around 140,000 people live across the city.
Kemp Town, the Victorian terrace neighbourhood to the east, is among Brighton's most sought-after districts for school catchments, while Westdene draws families competing for primary places on the quieter northern edge. Roedean has long been a school-competitive corner of Brighton, its clifftop streets particularly valued for secondary options. Montpelier and Portslade extend the residential reach westward, with Southern's Coastway service running to Portsmouth in around fifty minutes.
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Area Performance
Across 60 primary, secondary and sixth-form schools, state and independent. The average Find My School Inspection Score is 7.52/10, +0.09 vs England.
Find My School Inspection Band
Distribution across all Brighton schools
Brighton vs England distribution
National Rank
Across all ranked Brighton schools
top 61% of 14,978
top 61% of 14,978
top 34% of 3,862
top 34% of 3,862
top 31% of 2,555
top 31% of 2,555
Overall Oxbridge
5 ranked schools · +426 places vs Eng avg #914 of 1,984
Applications
156
Offers
32
Oxford
4 ranked schools · +22 places vs Eng avg #253 of 1,198
Applications
64
Offers
8
Cambridge
5 ranked schools · +535 places vs Eng avg #773 of 1,881
Applications
92
Offers
24
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Brighton
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