Which school had the best GCSE results in Brighton and Hove in 2022?

On 2022 Attainment 8, King's School topped the table in Brighton and Hove with 59.7. Attainment 8 rewards intake as well as teaching, so compare a school's grade 5+ pass rate and, where published, its Progress 8 before reading the rank as a verdict.

Where are the latest Brighton and Hove GCSE results?

This page is the 2022 archive (the 2021/22 academic year). The latest published results for every school in Brighton and Hove are on the main Brighton and Hove GCSE results page, which updates when the DfE releases the next year's performance tables: provisional figures in the autumn, revised figures early in the new year.

What is Attainment 8?

Attainment 8 is the DfE's headline GCSE measure: the average points a school's pupils achieved across eight qualifications, with English and maths counted twice. A score of 50 means pupils averaged roughly a grade 5 across those subjects. Progress 8 measures the same pupils against others nationally with the same primary-school starting point.

Why does a school in Brighton and Hove show no 2022 GCSE results?

A school has no published figure for 2022 when it had no Year 11 cohort in that year (a new school, or one that opened with younger year groups), when it converted to an academy and the DfE published that year's results under its previous identity, or when it is independent and its pupils sat IGCSE, Pre-U or IB qualifications that the DfE tables do not count. Independent schools with a published figure are listed separately and unranked for that reason.

Brighton and Hove GCSE results 2022: secondary school league table

10 state secondary schools in Brighton and Hove ranked on their 2022 GCSE results (Attainment 8, the 2021/22 academic year), with grade 5+ and grade 4+ in English and maths, Progress 8, EBacc average point score and cohort size for each school. 5 independent schools with published results are listed separately, unranked.

This is the 2022 archive of the table. See the latest Brighton and Hove GCSE results for the newest year the DfE has published.

Local Authority 10 state secondary schools 2021/22 results Archive year

Secondary schools in Brighton and Hove ranked on Attainment 8

10 of 10 schools have published 2022 results. Source: DfE school performance tables, 2021/22.

Secondary schools in Brighton and Hove ranked on Attainment 8, 2022 results
Rank	School	Attainment 8	Progress 8	Grade 5+ English & maths	Grade 4+ English & maths	EBacc APS	Pupils
1	King's School Hove · Free schools	59.7	+0.71 (0.43 to 0.99)	71%	93%	5.35	97
2	Varndean School Brighton · Community school	57.3	+0.41 (0.24 to 0.59)	71%	85%	5.26	264
3	Dorothy Stringer School Brighton · Community school	57.1	+0.26 (0.10 to 0.41)	64%	85%	5.38	325
4	Cardinal Newman Catholic School Hove · Voluntary aided school	56.1	+0.41 (0.26 to 0.56)	61%	81%	4.96	355
5	Patcham High School Brighton · Community school	53.6	-0.15 (-0.34 to 0.05)	64%	81%	4.85	209
6	Blatchington Mill School Hove · Community school	50.9	-0.04 (-0.21 to 0.13)	53%	71%	4.60	294
7	Portslade Aldridge Community Academy Brighton · Academy sponsor led	49.7	+0.24 (0.02 to 0.46)	53%	73%	4.66	166
8	Hove Park School and Sixth Form Centre Hove · Community school	49.6	+0.12 (-0.06 to 0.31)	54%	74%	4.64	257
9	Longhill High School Brighton · Community school	44.1	-0.51 (-0.74 to -0.29)	37%	59%	3.93	158
10	Brighton Aldridge Community Academy Brighton · Academy sponsor led	37.4	-0.60 (-0.87 to -0.34)	28%	47%	3.32	120

Independent schools in Brighton and Hove with published 2022 GCSE results

Listed as published, not ranked. The DfE tables count only reformed GCSEs, so a school whose pupils sit IGCSE, Pre-U or the IB reports a lower figure than its results merit, or none at all. Compare independent schools on their own published examination results and inspection reports.

School	Attainment 8 (as published)	Grade 5+ English & maths	Pupils
Brighton College Brighton · Other independent school	83.0	100%	202
Brighton Girls GDST Other independent school	71.7	91%	54
Kings Brighton Brighton · Other independent school	5.9	0%	15
Roedean School Brighton · Other independent school	16.3	0%	141
The Montessori Place Hove · Other independent school	14.5	0%	8

How to read this table

Attainment 8 is the average points a school's pupils achieved across eight GCSE subjects: English and maths (double-weighted), three EBacc subjects (sciences, computing, history, geography, languages) and three further approved qualifications. The DfE publishes it for every state school.

Grade 5+ in English and maths is the share of pupils reaching a "strong pass" in both; grade 4+ is the "standard pass". EBacc APS is the average point score across the English Baccalaureate subjects, including pupils who did not enter them.

Progress 8 measures how much progress pupils made from the end of primary school to their GCSEs against pupils nationally with the same starting point; it is the like-for-like measure, and the range in brackets is its confidence interval.

Ranks are shared where scores tie. Schools are ranked here on published results alone; our composite score, which also weighs Ofsted inspection, progress and attendance, orders the same schools on the best secondary schools page.

This is the 2022 archive of the table: each school's 2022 figures, ranked within that year, so a school with no 2022 figure is listed unranked even where it has results for a later year. The main Brighton and Hove GCSE results page always ranks the newest year the DfE has published.

See the best secondary schools in Brighton and Hove on our composite score

Brighton and Hove GCSE results 2022: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Brighton and Hove ranked on Attainment 8

Independent schools in Brighton and Hove with published 2022 GCSE results

More about schools in Brighton and Hove

Brighton and Hove GCSE results: common questions