Primary Schools

There are many primary schools in and around the areas of Brighton and Hove. The standard of these schools is very high and they provide a very popular start to education.

Such primary schools include:

• Aldrington Church of England Primary School
• Cottesmore St Mary's RC Primary School
• Elm Grove Primary School
• St Andrew's Church of England Primary School
• St John The Baptist RC School
• West Hove Infant and Junior School

Blatchington Mill School and College

Web address: www.blatchingtonmill.org.uk

Blatchington Mill School and Sixth Form College is a local authority secondary comprehensive school for boys and girls aged 11 to 18. The school maintains a broad and balanced curriculum. It offers a wide range of facilities, which includes: athletics, football, basketball, rugby, cricket, netball, hockey, rounders, tennis, badminton and trampolining. It provides opportunities to enhance learning and it encourages the pupils to participate and compete with other teams. The school has specialism in performing arts with numerous performing activities. Since September 2004, it also has mathematics and computing as its second specialism.

Brighton & Hove High School

Web address: www.bhhs.gdst.net

Brighton and Hove High School, one of nearly 30 schools owned by the Girls’ Day School Trust (GDST), is an independent day school for girls aged 3 to 18.

The school expects that, by the time girls leave, they will have excellent formal qualifications and the confidence that comes from a wide and soundly based preparation for life. The school is broadly Christian in tradition.

The school claims, with justification, to emphasise its “vitality, enthusiasm and friendliness.” Both the junior and the senior schools provide a good educational experience consistent with their aims.

Cardinal Newman Catholic School

Web address: www.cncs.co.uk

Cardinal Newman Catholic School is a large 11-18 Catholic comprehensive school and being one of the largest catholic schools in the country, it is established to serve the many parishes that lie on the coastal strip between Newhaven and Seaford in the east and Shoreham in the west.

It is set in mature attractive grounds in The Upper Drive, Hove.

Cardinal Newman is an outstanding school in which all students are valued and included. It provides a very well-ordered learning environment within which students reach very high levels of personal development and academic attainment. They have access to an excellent curriculum, are taught well and are very well cared for.

The school curriculum covers the following subjects: religious education, English, mathematics, science, history, geography, art, music, design technology, information technology, physical education and personal, social and health education.

The school aims to provide a calm, caring and stimulating environment.

Dorothy Stringer High School,

Dorothy Stringer High School, Brighton, is an 11-16 mixed comprehensive school with approximately 1,560 students on roll. The school has specialist sports status.

The school is a vibrant and dynamic place, which is very well led by an outstanding headteacher and a talented senior management team

The school has been extensively modernised and equipped with state-of-the-art learning resources. There is also a sports hall, dance studio and fitness suite. A wide range of extra-curricular activites are offered at lunchtime and after-school. These include climbing, mountain walking, canoeing, gymnastics, tennis, swimming and Christian union.

The school aims to enable every child to reach his or her potential in a caring and supportive environment.

Portslade Community College

Web address: www.pcc-web.com

Portslade Community College is an average-sized mixed comprehensive community college.The college’s sports facilities and library are open to the public and the college also runs the youth service on behalf of the local authority. The sixth form centre is situated about a mile away from the main site.

There is a wide range of courses on offer in the main college and in the sixth form and students benefit a great deal from this variety of sporting and other additional activities. Students generally enjoy their education. The school council is very effective and is valued by students and staff.

Roedean School

Web address: www.roedean.co.uk

Roedean is probably the most famous girls' schools in the world. Pupils, aged 11 to 18, from the UK and overseas, enjoy the many benefits of a first class independent education.

Roedean is magnificently situated in 40 acres of downland overlooking the Marina and the English Channel just outside the vibrant city of Brighton & Hove. Students attend from many different parts of the world. As well as teaching academic subjects, Roedean supports a wide variety of extracurricular activities such as dance, martial arts, sports, riding, music and drama. The Good Schools Guide stated that the "School has a healthy spirit and much to offer." The school incorporates a 320-seat theatre, a heated indoor swimming pool and a chapel, as well as a range of workshops, studios, laboratories and sports pitches. Roedean is the most expensive school in the United Kingdom.

Roedean was recently described by a journalist as "a powerful girls' school, fostering intellectual curiosity - and fun with it." The modern Roedean Girl is bright, purposeful, multi-skilled and sociable. She thrives in a school which combines traditional values - academic excellence, self-discipline, a sense of fair play, team spirit - with skills and aspirations which will serve her well in an ever-changing world.

Varndean School

Web address: http://www.varndean.co.uk

Varndean School is a larger-than-average school, with a vibrant learning community, eager to embrace innovation and change to reach its goals. One parent described the school's ethos as 'truly inclusive and comprehensive and we applaud them for it.'

The school holds specialist status in technology and music and has recently become a vocational specialist centre. It has been a Leading Edge school since 2003.

The school's best features are the quality of the teacher-student relationships, a broad, flexible curriculum and impressive extra-curricular provision. In addition, the well-managed specialist provision for technology and music is having a very positive effect.

The school also has a college, Varndean College, which is a sixth form college located at Brighton. It was established in 1884 and comprises of nearly 2,300 students. The college offers courses in arts and crafts, business, childcare and education, computing, counseling, English and media, humanities, English, food, French, health and personal development, languages, mathematics, music, physical education, science, social science and visual arts.