The School Record

Published admissions and inspection figures for schools in England, from the DfE, Ofsted and local authorities.

Blatchington Mill School

URN 114606 · Secondary · Community school · Brighton and Hove

Nevill Avenue, Hove, BN3 7BW

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Year 7, as published by the Department for Education. These describe demand. They do not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.

In the 2025 intake, 250 families named Blatchington Mill School as their first preference, and the school made 322 offers.

That is 0.78 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 23% of schools admitting at Year 7 in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 23% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Year 7, 2025 intake

Fewer families are naming it first. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 1.05 in 2021–2022 and 0.81 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Year 7, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 250 819 322 0.78
2024 278 764 329 0.84
2023 299 830 328 0.91
2022 285 818 324 0.88
2021 396 999 326 1.21
2020 336 830 310 1.08
2019 357 924 313 1.14
2018 395 937 324 1.22
2017 330 887 294 1.12
2016 397 872 285 1.39
2015 379 929 290 1.31
2014 340 833 291 1.17

“Offers made” counts the offers the school made. It is not the number of places the school had, so please do not read it as one.

Ofsted

Ofsted changed its inspection framework: the current one publishes several graded areas and no single overall grade, while the previous one published an overall effectiveness grade. Each inspection below states which framework produced it.

Ofsted ungraded inspection, 23 February 2022

School remains Good

Ofsted's report for this school

Exam results

Published by the Department for Education for the whole year group. Figures for smaller cohorts are withheld by DfE to protect pupil privacy and appear here as a dash, not a zero.

Key stage 4 (GCSE)
YearAttainment 8Progress 8 Grade 4+ English & mathsEBacc grade 4+
2024/25 51.00 - 78.0% 36.3%
2023/24 52.40 0.30
likely between 0.13 and 0.46		 79.4% 36.8%
2022/23 49.70 0.03
likely between -0.13 and 0.18		 72.9% 28.6%

Progress 8 compares pupils here with pupils nationally who had similar results at the end of primary school; 0 is average. It is an estimate, and DfE publishes a range it is likely to fall within. Where that range spans zero, the school cannot be said to be above or below average.

Teachers staying and leaving

These come from the School Workforce Census, which follows each teacher into the next year. The numbers count full-time jobs, so a teacher who works half the week counts as half. They are not a count of people.

Census yearTeachers (FTE) Still there a year later Moved to another state school Left state schools Left in total
2024/25 86.0 78.2 2.0 5.8 9.1%
2023/24 89.4 73.8 2.8 12.8 17.4%
2022/23 86.5 76.2 5.7 4.6 11.9%
2021/22 83.3 71.5 1.6 10.2 14.2%
2020/21 83.2 70.9 2.6 9.7 14.8%
2019/20 83.9 76.0 1.0 6.9 9.4%

This is turnover among teachers. It says nothing about the headteacher or the senior leadership team: DfE publishes leadership retention separately and we do not hold it by school.

Catchment area

Nobody publishes a catchment area map for this school that we can read. That does not mean an address is outside its area. It means we hold no map, so we cannot tell you either way.

Where it is

The 6 nearest secondary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Blatchington Mill School.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

This page was made on 9 September 2026. "Retrieved" means the day we downloaded the data. It is not the day the data was written, so the figures can be about an earlier year. How we compare schools.