Graded inspection · Feb 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in West Sussex
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Outstanding | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Outstanding | |||
| Sixth form provision | Outstanding |
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About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry624 applications · 325 places offered · 350 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 1.9; West Sussex median median 2.3
- 2025 1.9; West Sussex median median 2.2
- 2024 2.3; West Sussex median median 2.2
- 2023 2.1; West Sussex median median 2.1
- 2022 2.3; West Sussex median median 2.3
- 2021 2.3; West Sussex median median 2.3
- 2020 2.1; West Sussex median median 2.4
- 2019 2.2; West Sussex median median 2.4
- 2018 1.9; West Sussex median median 2.6
- 2017 1.8; West Sussex median median 2.2
- 2016 1.6; West Sussex median median 2.3
- 2015 1.7; West Sussex median median 2.3
- 2014 1.9; West Sussex median median 2.1
- This school
- West Sussex median
Year 7 applications for September 2027 close 31 October 2026, through your council
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 325 | 624 | 1.9 | 350 | 1.08 |
| Sep 2025 | 294 | 559 | 1.9 | 311 | 1.06 |
| Sep 2024 | 280 | 642 | 2.3 | 350 | 1.25 |
| Sep 2023 | 316 | 661 | 2.1 | 344 | 1.09 |
| Sep 2022 | 300 | 683 | 2.3 | 377 | 1.26 |
| Sep 2021 | 291 | 677 | 2.3 | 343 | 1.18 |
| Sep 2020 | 295 | 632 | 2.1 | 345 | 1.17 |
| Sep 2019 | 298 | 644 | 2.2 | 361 | 1.21 |
| Sep 2018 | 298 | 568 | 1.9 | 316 | 1.06 |
| Sep 2017 | 289 | 513 | 1.8 | 344 | 1.19 |
| Sep 2016 | 287 | 465 | 1.6 | 290 | 1.01 |
| Sep 2015 | 270 | 461 | 1.7 | 282 | 1.04 |
| Sep 2014 | 270 | 509 | 1.9 | 321 | 1.19 |
How did pupils do at GCSE?
DfE KS4 · 2025/26 provisionalEvery year as a table
| Year | Pupils | Attainment 8 | 5+ Eng & maths | 4+ Eng & maths | Progress 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 (prov.) | 295 | 51.3 | 57% | 75% | – |
| 2024/25 | 286 | 54.8 | 65% | 82% | – |
| 2023/24 | 287 | 52.3 | 66% | 83% | +0.56 |
| 2022/23 | 273 | 52.2 | 62% | 81% | +0.54 |
Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 or 2025/26: those pupils had no key stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest secondary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Shoreham AcademyThis schoolThis schoolOutstanding20241.9applications per place 51.3Attainment 8
- 2.1 km · Brighton and Hove20262.0applications per place 44.1Attainment 8
- 4.2 km · Brighton and Hove20264.8applications per place 56.5Attainment 8
- 4.6 km · Brighton and Hove20262.7applications per place 52.5Attainment 8
- 4.7 km · Brighton and Hove20265.2applications per place 42.0Attainment 8
- 6.0 km · West Sussex20261.9applications per place 44.6Attainment 8
- 6.2 km · Brighton and HoveGraded · no overall grade20243.4applications per place 50.9Attainment 8
- 7.3 km · Brighton and HoveGood20233.3applications per place 50.5Attainment 8
- 7.7 km · Brighton and HoveRemains Good20233.1applications per place 46.7Attainment 8
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 135962 · 938/6914
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Christian
- Capacity
- 1,700 pupils · 1,759 on roll
- Free school meals
- 17.1% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 September 2009
- Replaced
- King's Manor Community College (URN 126079)
- Address
- Kingston Lane, Shoreham-by-Sea, BN43 6YT
- Local authority
- West Sussex · Adur
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources