Longhill High School
Secondary · Community school · Ages 11–16 · Brighton, Brighton and Hove
Last distance offered · Year 7 2025
Every applicant was offered a place
From Brighton & Hove City Council · offers on 3 March 2025
Year 7 last distance offered, 2018–2025 (miles)
All: every applicant was offered a place.
Longhill High School is a secondary school in Brighton, Brighton and Hove for ages 11–16 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Requires improvement, from the inspection on 19 March 2024. Brighton and Hove has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2018 to 2025 entry.
Longhill High School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Year 7 2025 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Year 7 2024 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Year 7 2023 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Year 7 2022 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Year 7 2018 | Every applicant was offered a place |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2024/25, 22% got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths, the lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest secondary schools in Brighton and Hove.
- For Year 7 2025, every applicant was offered a place, as at 4 of the 6 other Brighton and Hove secondary schools with a published Year 7 2025 outcome.
- 70 first-choice applications for 93 offers in Year 7 2026; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 23 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 43.2% of pupils are eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest secondary schools in Brighton and Hove is 26.3%.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Brighton and Hove schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Falmer Road, Rottingdean, Brighton, BN2 7FR
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Brighton and Hove
- Pupils on roll
- 632 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 43.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Requires improvement Inspected 19 March 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils are proud to attend Longhill.”
- “They build warm relationships with staff.”
- “This helps them to develop an increasingly secure sense of belonging.”
To improve
- “However, the curriculum is not implemented consistently well.”
- “As a result, pupils do not learn some of the skills and knowledge they need.”
- “This means that, overall, pupils do not achieve as well as they should in national tests.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 8 September 2026 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| GCSE English and maths, grade 5 or above (2024/25) | 22% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 32.9 | 46 |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 70 first-preference applications, 93 offers in total, 70 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby secondary schools
Straight-line distance, in Brighton and Hove.
- Brighton Aldridge Community Academy 2.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Varndean School 3.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Dorothy Stringer School 3.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Cardinal Newman Catholic School 4.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Patcham High School 4.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Hove Park School and Sixth Form Centre 5.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Blatchington Mill School 5.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- King's School 5.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published