Which school had the best GCSE results in East Sussex in 2024?

On 2024 Attainment 8, Cardinal Newman Catholic School topped the table in East Sussex with 54.4, against an England average of 45.9. 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 East Sussex GCSE results?

This page is the 2024 archive (the 2023/24 academic year). The latest published results for every school in East Sussex are on the main East Sussex 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 East Sussex show no 2024 GCSE results?

A school has no published figure for 2024 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.

East Sussex GCSE results 2024: secondary school league table

31 state secondary schools in East Sussex ranked on their 2024 GCSE results (Attainment 8, the 2023/24 academic year), with grade 5+ and grade 4+ in English and maths, Progress 8, EBacc average point score and cohort size for each school against the England average. 4 schools with no published results are listed at the end. 13 independent schools with published results are listed separately, unranked.

This is the 2024 archive of the table. See the latest East Sussex GCSE results for the newest year the DfE has published.

County 35 state secondary schools 2023/24 results Archive year

Secondary schools in East Sussex ranked on Attainment 8

31 of 35 schools have published 2024 results. Source: DfE school performance tables, 2023/24.

Secondary schools in East Sussex ranked on Attainment 8, 2024 results
Rank	School	Attainment 8	Progress 8	Grade 5+ English & maths	Grade 4+ English & maths	EBacc APS	Pupils
–	England average	45.9	0.00	46%	65%	4.07	–
1 , up 4 places since 2023	Cardinal Newman Catholic School Hove · Voluntary aided school	54.4	+0.56 (0.41 to 0.71)	61%	81%	4.79	355
2	Varndean School Brighton · Community school	53.5	+0.42 (0.26 to 0.59)	66%	80%	4.99	293
3 , up 10 places since 2023	Chailey School Lewes · Community school	53.4	+0.36 (0.13 to 0.60)	65%	80%	5.01	155
4 , up 3 places since 2023	Priory School Lewes · Foundation school	53.3	+0.48 (0.29 to 0.67)	64%	76%	5.08	231
5 , up 4 places since 2023	Blatchington Mill School Hove · Community school	52.4	+0.30 (0.13 to 0.46)	61%	79%	4.78	315
6	Beacon Academy Crowborough · Academy converter	52.1	+0.50 (0.32 to 0.68)	60%	78%	4.82	259
7 , up 3 places since 2023	The Cavendish School Eastbourne · Academy converter	50.7	+0.47 (0.26 to 0.68)	56%	77%	4.32	176
8 , up 4 places since 2023	Seaford Head School Seaford · Academy converter	50.2	+0.47 (0.28 to 0.65)	58%	75%	4.71	232
9 , down 1 place since 2023	Uckfield College Uckfield · Community school	50.0	+0.27 (0.10 to 0.44)	49%	70%	4.66	270
10 , down 7 places since 2023	Dorothy Stringer School Brighton · Community school	49.8	+0.11 (-0.05 to 0.26)	58%	74%	4.74	325
11 , down 10 places since 2023	Heathfield Community College Heathfield · Community school	49.5	+0.30 (0.11 to 0.50)	50%	74%	4.34	230
12 , up 9 places since 2023	St Catherine's College Eastbourne · Academy converter	48.1	+0.09 (-0.11 to 0.28)	51%	76%	4.21	209
13 , up 1 place since 2023	Gildredge House Eastbourne · Free schools	48.0	+0.16 (-0.09 to 0.40)	51%	69%	4.32	146
14 , up 5 places since 2023	Willingdon Community School Eastbourne · Community school	47.9	+0.08 (-0.12 to 0.28)	47%	73%	4.16	194
15 , down 11 places since 2023	Claverham Community College Battle · Community school	47.4	-0.07 (-0.26 to 0.12)	50%	69%	4.45	217
16 , up 4 places since 2023	Portslade Aldridge Community Academy Brighton · Academy sponsor led	46.6	-0.01 (-0.22 to 0.20)	46%	66%	4.53	187
17 , down 3 places since 2023	King's Academy Ringmer Lewes · Academy converter	46.4	+0.30 (0.00 to 0.59)	45%	65%	4.34	92
18	Uplands Academy Wadhurst · Academy converter	44.4	-0.23 (-0.47 to 0.02)	40%	64%	4.07	135
19 , down 8 places since 2023	Patcham High School Brighton · Community school	44.0	-0.45 (-0.64 to -0.26)	46%	63%	4.24	221
20 , down 4 places since 2023	Hove Park School and Sixth Form Centre Hove · Community school	43.3	-0.13 (-0.33 to 0.08)	41%	63%	4.05	222
21 , down 4 places since 2023	Ratton School Eastbourne · Academy converter	41.4	-0.10 (-0.29 to 0.10)	36%	57%	3.50	221
22	Bexhill High Academy Bexhill-on-Sea · Academy converter	40.9	-0.59 (-0.76 to -0.43)	37%	59%	3.65	300
23 , up 2 places since 2023	Peacehaven Community School Peacehaven · Academy converter	40.1	+0.21 (0.00 to 0.42)	30%	54%	3.45	179
24 , down 1 place since 2023	Seahaven Academy Newhaven · Academy sponsor led	39.2	-0.23 (-0.47 to 0.01)	40%	57%	3.60	141
25 , down 1 place since 2023	Ark Alexandra Academy Hastings · Academy sponsor led	38.4	-0.79 (-0.97 to -0.61)	33%	52%	3.40	258
26 , up 1 place since 2023	Brighton Aldridge Community Academy Brighton · Academy sponsor led	37.3	-0.40 (-0.67 to -0.13)	30%	48%	3.21	117
27 , down 1 place since 2023	Rye College Rye · Academy converter	36.3	-0.85 (-1.13 to -0.56)	29%	48%	3.02	100
28	Longhill High School Brighton · Community school	36.1	-0.70 (-0.92 to -0.48)	27%	48%	3.13	169
29 , up 2 places since 2023	Mulberry Academy Hastings Hastings · Academy sponsor led	33.4	-1.29 (-1.51 to -1.07)	23%	44%	2.86	173
30	The Turing School Eastbourne · Academy sponsor led	30.0	-0.99 (-1.24 to -0.73)	17%	32%	2.43	128
31 , down 2 places since 2023	The Eastbourne Academy Eastbourne · Academy sponsor led	29.1	-0.88 (-1.11 to -0.66)	17%	32%	2.38	154
–	Hailsham Academy Hailsham · Academy converter · No published GCSE results for 2024	–	–	–	–	–	–
–	Mulberry Academy St Leonards St Leonards-on-Sea · Academy sponsor led · No published GCSE results for 2024	–	–	–	–	–	–
–	Robertsbridge Community College Robertsbridge · Academy sponsor led · No published GCSE results for 2024	–	–	–	–	–	–
–	St Richard's Catholic College Bexhill-on-Sea · Academy converter · No published GCSE results for 2024	–	–	–	–	–	–

Under each rank: the change since the 2023 table, in places gained (+) or lost (−). No figure means the rank is unchanged or the school had no ranked 2023 result.

Independent schools in East Sussex with published 2024 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
Battle Abbey School East Sussex · Other independent school	41.8	0%	59
Bede's Senior School Hailsham · Other independent school	28.2	0%	182
Brighton College Brighton · Other independent school	66.1	0%	236
Buckswood School East Sussex · Other independent school	15.5	0%	76
Claremont School St Leonards-on-Sea · Other independent school	36.0	0%	81
Eastbourne College Eastbourne · Other independent school	41.7	0%	127
Greenfields School Other independent school	11.1	0%	9
Lewes Old Grammar School Other independent school	60.7	84%	109
Mayfield School Mayfield · Other independent school	64.7	66%	62
Michael Hall School Forest Row · Other independent school	43.7	59%	41
Oxford International College, Brighton Brighton · Other independent school	6.0	0%	33
Roedean School Brighton · Other independent school	18.4	0%	140
The Montessori Place Hove · Other independent school	17.3	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; the England average for 2024 was 45.9.

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 2024 archive of the table: each school's 2024 figures, ranked within that year, so a school with no 2024 figure is listed unranked even where it has results for a later year. The main East Sussex GCSE results page always ranks the newest year the DfE has published.

See the best secondary schools in East Sussex on our composite score

East Sussex GCSE results 2024: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in East Sussex ranked on Attainment 8

Independent schools in East Sussex with published 2024 GCSE results

More about schools in East Sussex

East Sussex GCSE results: common questions