Graded inspection · May 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in East Sussex
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Good |
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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 entry394 applications · 308 places offered · 243 named it first
- 2026 1.3; East Sussex median median 1.9
- 2025 1.3; East Sussex median median 1.9
- 2024 1.2; East Sussex median median 1.9
- 2023 1.4; East Sussex median median 1.9
- 2022 1.3; East Sussex median median 1.8
- 2021 1.2; East Sussex median median 1.9
- 2020 1.2; East Sussex median median 1.7
- 2019 1.1; East Sussex median median 1.8
- 2018 1.1; East Sussex median median 1.7
- 2017 1.0; East Sussex median median 1.6
- 2016 1.1; East Sussex median median 1.7
- 2015 1.1; East Sussex median median 1.4
- 2014 1.1; East Sussex median median 1.5
- This school
- East 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 | 308 | 394 | 1.3 | 243 | 0.79 |
| Sep 2025 | 279 | 364 | 1.3 | 215 | 0.77 |
| Sep 2024 | 293 | 336 | 1.2 | 223 | 0.76 |
| Sep 2023 | 295 | 423 | 1.4 | 306 | 1.04 |
| Sep 2022 | 308 | 403 | 1.3 | 279 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2021 | 298 | 371 | 1.2 | 255 | 0.86 |
| Sep 2020 | 320 | 383 | 1.2 | 300 | 0.94 |
| Sep 2019 | 301 | 338 | 1.1 | 243 | 0.81 |
| Sep 2018 | 265 | 298 | 1.1 | 208 | 0.78 |
| Sep 2017 | 272 | 267 | 1.0 | 195 | 0.72 |
| Sep 2016 | 148 | 169 | 1.1 | 125 | 0.84 |
| Sep 2015 | 148 | 166 | 1.1 | 123 | 0.83 |
| Sep 2014 | 179 | 197 | 1.1 | 159 | 0.89 |
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.) | 276 | 45.7 | 51% | 70% | – |
| 2024/25 | 291 | 41.7 | 34% | 60% | – |
| 2023/24 | 300 | 40.9 | 37% | 59% | −0.59 |
| 2022/23 | 267 | 39.9 | 37% | 57% | −0.69 |
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
- Bexhill High AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20251.3applications per place 45.7Attainment 8
- 2.7 km · East SussexGood20212.4applications per place
- 5.6 km · East SussexSpecial measures Graded · no overall grade2025
- 6.8 km · East SussexRemains Good · improving20243.1applications per place 48.0Attainment 8
- 8.3 km · East Sussex20261.6applications per place 45.4Attainment 8
- 11.6 km · East Sussex20261.5applications per place 38.5Attainment 8
- 11.6 km · East SussexStandards maintained20252.3applications per place 45.6Attainment 8
- 12.8 km · East Sussex20261.2applications per place 31.7Attainment 8
- 14.1 km · East SussexSerious weaknesses Inadequate20230.9applications per place 35.4Attainment 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 converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 138895 · 845/4044
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,500 pupils · 1,441 on roll
- Free school meals
- 31.2% of pupils (England median 23%)
- SEN provision
- SEN unit
- Opened
- 1 November 2012
- Replaced
- Bexhill High School (URN 114595)
- Address
- Gunters Lane, Bexhill-on-Sea, TN39 4BY
- Local authority
- East Sussex · Rother
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