Blatchington Mill School

Community school·Secondary school Brighton and Hove·BN3 7BW
Composite score
63.7
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#796
National rank
#149
In South East
#3
In Brighton and Hove
Top 25%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
51.0
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
62%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
78%
% EBacc grade 5+
26%
EBacc average points score
4.66

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
94%
252 first choices, 323 places
First choices per place
0.78
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
886
any preference, for 323 places
Applications from another council area
3%
First preferences per place, last five years▶ 0.00
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1 per place
0.8820220.9120230.8420240.7820250.782026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Blatchington Mill School yet. Brighton and Hove does publish allocation figures and we are working through them council by council — we only show a distance once we have found it in the council’s own document.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
11–16
Pupils on roll
1,635
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
21.3%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
15.1%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
13.9%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
1.8%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
10.1%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
27.9%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
19.0
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£7,762
Typical secondary: £7,815

“Typical” = the median secondary school in England. What this means

What pupils do next

The share of this school's Year 11 leavers in education, training or employment for at least two terms afterwards.

In education, training or work
95%
325 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
91%
Apprenticeship
2%
Employment
2%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

Blatchington Mill School at a glance

Located in Brighton and Hove, Blatchington Mill School is a secondary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 1,635 pupils aged 11 to 16. In the most recent GCSE results, pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 51.0, above the national average of 46. That is down 1.4 points in its Attainment 8 score on the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the top 25% of secondary schools nationally.

62% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, well above the national average of about 45%. 78% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. 94% of the families who made Blatchington Mill School their first choice were offered a Year 7 place for September 2026, even though the school made at least as many offers as it had first choices - the rest withdrew, moved or fell outside a priority group. After Year 11, 95% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 10.1%. There are about 19.0 pupils per teacher. Blatchington Mill School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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