Patcham 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
Unlock every school · £9.99 Open on the map →Patcham High School is a secondary school in Brighton, Brighton and Hove for ages 11–16 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 19 April 2023. Brighton and Hove has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2018 to 2025 entry.
Patcham 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 | Not published |
| Year 7 2023 | Not published |
| Year 7 2022 | Not published |
| Year 7 2018 | Not published |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- 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.
- 145 first-choice applications for 198 offers in Year 7 2026; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 53 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 45% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), and the Attainment 8 score was 45.5 (England 46).
- It has 18.4 pupils per teacher; the middle figure across the 8 nearest secondary schools in Brighton and Hove is 17.
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
- Ladies Mile Road, Brighton, BN1 8PB
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Brighton and Hove
- Pupils on roll
- 1,074 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 26.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 19 April 2023
Strengths
- “Patcham High School actively encourages all pupils to experience and value each other’s differences, cultures, backgrounds and abilities.”
- “It provides a wide range of opportunities through an ambitious academic curriculum that is supported by careers, enrichment and personal development.”
- “Welfare, well-being, relationships and sex education are all well covered.”
To improve
- “The programme is extensive, but take up is not as high as it could be.”
- “The subject is valued, although some pupils find some of the content repetitive.”
- “Links with other subjects are not always sufficiently pursued to support pupils’ wider knowledge and skills.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 15 June 2023 (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) | 45% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 45.5 | 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: 145 first-preference applications, 198 offers in total, 145 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.
- Varndean School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Dorothy Stringer School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Cardinal Newman Catholic School 1.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Blatchington Mill School 2.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Hove Park School and Sixth Form Centre 2.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- King's School 2.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Brighton Aldridge Community Academy 2.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Portslade Aldridge Community Academy 3.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published