Patcham High School[1]

Secondary · ages 11–16

Headline results

Attainment 8: A8 47 46.7 2025/26[2]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8: 46.7 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths: 50.4% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths: 14.7% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8: -0.45 2023/24[3]
Progress 8, 2025/26: Not calculated[4]
Progress 8, 2024/25: Not calculated[4]

Earlier years
Year	Attainment 8	Grade 5+ in English & maths	Progress 8
2024/25	45.5[5]	45.4%[5]
2023/24	44[3]	45.7%[3]	-0.45[3]
2022/23	47.9[6]	51%[6]	-0.21[6]
2021/22	53.6[7]	64%[7]	-0.15[7]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 94% 2022/23[8]
School sixth form: 4% 2022/23[8]
Sixth-form college: 61% 2022/23[8]
Further education college: 23% 2022/23[8]
Apprenticeship: 3% 2022/23[8]
Employment: 2% 2022/23[8]

Earlier leavers
Left in	Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment	School sixth form	Sixth-form college	Further education college	Apprenticeship	Employment
2021/22	93%[9]	2%[9]	67%[9]	15%[9]	3%[9]	6%[9]
2020/21	92%[10]	2%[10]	57%[10]	22%[10]	8%[10]	2%[10]
2019/20	95%[11]	1%[11]	58%[11]	30%[11]	3%[11]	1%[11]
2018/19	92%[12]	3%[12]	61%[12]	19%[12]	4%[12]	3%[12]

Shares of the pupils who left in the year shown. Russell Group and Oxford or Cambridge figures were published for leavers up to 2019/20 only.

Ofsted

Latest inspection: 18 Apr 2023[13]
Type: Section 8 inspection of good and outstanding schools[13]
Report published: 14 Jun 2023[13]
Safeguarding is effective: Yes[13]
Outcomes for ungraded and monitoring inspections: School remains Good[13]

Earlier inspections
Inspection	Type	Overall
7 Nov 2017[14]	S5 Inspection[14]	Good[14]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place: 3.0 Entry Sept 2026[15]
Applications (any preference): 603 Entry Sept 2026[15]
First preferences: 145 Entry Sept 2026[15]
Places offered: 198 Entry Sept 2026[15]
First preferences per place: 0.7 Entry Sept 2026[15]

Earlier years
Entry	Applications	First preferences	Places offered	Per place	First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025	455[15]	153[15]	208[15]	2.2[15]	0.7[15]
Entry Sept 2024	537[15]	206[15]	220[15]	2.4[15]	0.9[15]
Entry Sept 2023	573[15]	198[15]	220[15]	2.6[15]	0.9[15]
Entry Sept 2022	597[15]	209[15]	214[15]	2.8[15]	1.0[15]

Character & practicalities

Type: Community school[1]
Ages: 11–16[1]
Boys / girls: Mixed[1]
Admissions: Non-selective[1]
Sixth form: No[1]
Boarding: No boarders[1]
Capacity: 1125[1]
Local authority: Brighton and Hove[1]
Website: https://www.patchamhigh.brighton-hove.sch.uk/[1]
District: Brighton and Hove [16]
Postcode: BN1 8PB[1]
URN: 114608[1]

School details as recorded in Get Information About Schools on 14 Oct 2026.

Pupils

Number on roll: 1099 2024/25[17]
English as an additional language: 7.6% 2024/25[17]
SEN support: 23.3% 2024/25[17]
EHC plan: 5% 2024/25[17]
Free school meals in the last 6 years: 24.3% 2024/25[17]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White: 83%[18]
Mixed: 9.4%[18]
Asian: 3.4%[18]
Black: 1.7%[18]
Any other ethnic group: 2.4%[18]
Unclassified: 0.2%[18]

The school census's major ethnic groups as shares of the school's pupils, summed by us from the published counts. For information only: never used to rank, filter or colour schools.

Sources

Department for Education: Get Information About Schools: all establishments. Period 2026-10-14, published 2026-10-14. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Performance tables schools data (explore education statistics). Period 2025/26, provisional, published 2026-10-15. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2023/24, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Key stage 4 performance 2024/25: data guidance. Period 2024/25. Archived copy; original. Licence: OGL-3.0.
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It is not possible to calculate Progress 8 for academic years 2024/25 and 2025/26 due to gaps in the baseline caused by COVID-19 disruption.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2021/22, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
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Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2020/21, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2019/20, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2018/19, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2022/23. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2017/18. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Primary and secondary school applications and offers: school level. Period Entry Sept 2026, final, published 2026-06-29. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Office for National Statistics: Parish to Ward to Local Authority District (May 2026) Lookup in EW. Period 2026-05-01. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
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Department for Education: Schools, pupils and their characteristics: school level underlying data. Period 2025/26, published 2026-06-04. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.