Each school coloured by Value Added v2.1 for all pupils; choose another measure, including absence against intake, from the menu. Circle size is the school’s roll; hover for every group’s value added, absence against intake, the published v1 figure, and Ofsted.
Brighton and Hove
Value Added v2.1 for Brighton and Hove’s secondary schools.
NoteAbout this page
Value Added v2.1 for Brighton and Hove’s state-funded secondary schools, 2021/22 to 2024/25, measured against England (see the method), with the analyses of the original Sussex document refitted on the v2.1 model. Built from published DfE and Ofsted data; nothing uses pupil-level records.
Summary
- 10 schools, with value added for all pupils averaging +1.4 points against England: 5 significantly above expectation and none below.
- Disadvantaged pupils +0.4, non-disadvantaged +1.5; girls +1.0, boys +1.7.
- Strongest: Varndean School (+3.1). Weakest: Patcham High School (-2.0).
- Absence runs 1.7 points above what the intake predicts on average over 2021/22 to 2024/25 (3rd highest of 152 authorities); 7 schools more than a point above.
- 1 of 10 schools adds value with attendance at or better than its intake predicts; 7 add value despite worse attendance, and 1 is below expectation with worse attendance (value added and attendance).
- The authority’s own effect is +3.8% (6th of 152), distinguishable from zero for all pupils, +3.9% (18th) for disadvantaged pupils and +3.8% (4th) for non-disadvantaged pupils.
- Suspensions: 13.0 episodes per 100 pupils (England 21.2); 5.9 pupils per 100 suspended at least once (England 7.3). Reduced timetables run at 1.0 times the national rate.
- Trusts that stand out nationally on v2.1: Aldridge Education (absence +11.7%).
- Latest Ofsted: 5 report cards, 2 inspections with no overall grade, 2 graded inspections and 1 ungraded visit only.
- 2025/26, provisional: value added for all pupils averages +1.6 points across the area’s schools on DfE’s provisional results. This will be updated with the revised release in February 2027.
The schools
| School | District | All pupils | Disadv. | Non-disadv. | Girls | Boys | Absence vs intake | 2025/26 (provisional) | v1 | Ofsted latest | Run by (2024/25) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Varndean School | Brighton and Hove | +3.1 (+0.9 to +5.4) | +1.1 | +3.2 | +1.6 | +4.0 | +0.4 | +6.3 | +2.5 | Good (Oct 2022) | Maintained by the council |
| Portslade Aldridge Community Academy | Brighton and Hove | +3.1 (+1.2 to +5.1) | +0.7 | +3.4 | +1.7 | +4.3 | +2.1 | +1.1 | +1.1 | Report card (Jan 2026): achievement Expected standard, curriculum and teaching Expected standard | Aldridge Education |
| Dorothy Stringer School | Brighton and Hove | +3.0 (+0.8 to +5.3) | +0.9 | +3.0 | +2.4 | +3.2 | +2.1 | +2.9 | +3.0 | Good (Oct 2023) | Maintained by the council |
| Hove Park School and Sixth Form Centre | Brighton and Hove | +2.6 (+0.7 to +4.6) | +1.8 | +2.7 | +2.7 | +2.3 | +2.0 | +1.2 | +0.9 | Report card (Jan 2026): achievement Expected standard, curriculum and teaching Expected standard | Maintained by the council |
| Brighton Aldridge Community Academy | Brighton and Hove | +2.2 (+0.7 to +3.8) | +2.4 | +2.6 | +2.7 | +1.4 | +3.7 | -2.3 | +1.2 | No overall grade (Apr 2025): quality of education Good | Aldridge Education |
| King's School | Brighton and Hove | +2.1 (-0.2 to +4.6) | +0.5 | +2.5 | +2.1 | +1.7 | -1.4 | +2.3 | +1.9 | Report card (May 2026): achievement Strong standard, curriculum and teaching Strong standard | Russell Education Trust |
| Blatchington Mill School | Brighton and Hove | +1.2 (-0.9 to +3.4) | +0.7 | +0.6 | +1.2 | +1.0 | +2.3 | +5.3 | +0.2 | Report card (Jun 2026): achievement Expected standard, curriculum and teaching Expected standard | Maintained by the council |
| Cardinal Newman Catholic School | Brighton and Hove | +0.6 (-1.6 to +2.9) | +0.9 | +0.1 | +0.4 | +0.3 | +1.4 | +0.5 | -0.4 | No overall grade (Oct 2024): quality of education Outstanding | Maintained by the council |
| Longhill High School | Brighton and Hove | -1.5 (-3.0 to +0.2) | -2.8 | -0.9 | -1.8 | -0.9 | +4.2 | -2.2 | -1.7 | Report card (Jun 2026): achievement Needs attention, curriculum and teaching Needs attention | Maintained by the council |
| Patcham High School | Brighton and Hove | -2.0 (-4.0 to +0.1) | -2.2 | -2.2 | -3.5 | -0.5 | -0.2 | +1.3 | -3.5 | Remains Good (Apr 2023, ungraded visit) | Maintained by the council |
Who runs them
Value added and attendance
Two questions, kept apart. Does the school add value? Value Added v2.1 answers that with absence allowed for: a school with more absence is expected to score lower, so it is judged on what it achieves given its attendance. Does it hold attendance? Absence against intake answers that: how far its absence runs above or below what pupils like its own would predict. The chart sets one against the other. Neither contains the other, so the four corners mean what they say.
Of 10 schools, 1 adds value with attendance at or better than its intake predicts, and 7 add value despite worse attendance. 1 is below expectation with worse attendance, and 1 is below expectation despite attendance at or better than predicted. Across England the two are close to independent (correlation -0.07; -0.05 across Brighton and Hove’s schools). Adding value and holding attendance are different things, and plenty of schools do one without the other.
Value added with no allowance for absence. The map also offers value added from the model without its absence term. It does not excuse a school its absence: for every percentage point its absence runs above what its intake predicts, it loses about 1.1 Attainment 8 points against Value Added v2.1. It is the two axes above folded into one number, so it belongs on the map, not on this chart, where it would contain the absence it is plotted against. Brighton Aldridge Community Academy and Blatchington Mill School show the difference: above expectation on Value Added v2.1 (+2.2 and +1.2), below it with no allowance for absence (-0.2 and -2.6), because absence runs +3.7 and +2.3 points above what the intake predicts. See the methodology.
Value added allowing for the kind of absence. The map also offers value added with the illness share of absence in the expectation: where more of a school’s absence is illness, the same absence is expected to cost less. It is published beside Value Added v2.1, not in it, because what is authorised as illness is partly the school’s own coding (methodology). Across Brighton and Hove’s schools the two agree at 1.00; no school moves by as much as half a point.
| School | District | Value added v2.1 | Absence vs intake | No allowance for absence | Run by (2024/25) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Furthest above | |||||
| Varndean School | Brighton and Hove | +3.1 | +0.4 | +2.1 | Maintained by the council |
| Portslade Aldridge Community Academy | Brighton and Hove | +3.1 | +2.1 | +0.9 | Aldridge Education |
| Dorothy Stringer School | Brighton and Hove | +3.0 | +2.1 | -0.3 | Maintained by the council |
| Hove Park School and Sixth Form Centre | Brighton and Hove | +2.6 | +2.0 | +0.5 | Maintained by the council |
| Brighton Aldridge Community Academy | Brighton and Hove | +2.2 | +3.7 | -0.2 | Aldridge Education |
| Furthest below | |||||
| King's School | Brighton and Hove | +2.1 | -1.4 | +3.7 | Russell Education Trust |
| Blatchington Mill School | Brighton and Hove | +1.2 | +2.3 | -2.6 | Maintained by the council |
| Cardinal Newman Catholic School | Brighton and Hove | +0.6 | +1.4 | -2.5 | Maintained by the council |
| Longhill High School | Brighton and Hove | -1.5 | +4.2 | -5.1 | Maintained by the council |
| Patcham High School | Brighton and Hove | -2.0 | -0.2 | -3.1 | Maintained by the council |
What Brighton and Hove’s schools add, and what absence takes away
Value added already counts absence as part of a school’s context, so what absence moves and what the school moves are separate quantities rather than one counted twice. Below, the blue bar is what this area’s absence is worth against the England average of 8.6% in 2024/25, run through the national gradient; the purple bar is the area’s mean value added, which is measured against England already. The diamond is the two together. Absence here is full-year absence in 2024/25, the mean of schools; value added covers 2021/22 to 2024/25. How the bars are computed from the model is set out in the methodology.
Brighton and Hove’s schools ran at 11.3% absence in 2024/25 against England’s 8.6%, which on the national gradient is worth -2.8 Attainment 8 points. Their mean value added is +1.4, so the two together leave the area -1.4 points against England. The schools are pulling against their attendance, and recovering 51% of it.
For disadvantaged pupils the same absence is worth -3.2 points of their Attainment 8 (mean 38.4), against -2.4 for non-disadvantaged pupils (mean 50.3) and -2.8 for pupils as a whole (47.5): the gradient is 77% steeper for them than for non-disadvantaged pupils, so wherever attendance is the problem it is a sharper problem for the pupils with least room to absorb it.
The gradient is associational. It says what schools with this much absence look like once intake is accounted for, not what this area would gain by changing it.
How Brighton and Hove compares
| Measure | Brighton and Hove | East Sussex | West Sussex | England |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8, all pupils | 45.5 (85th) | 43.8 | 46.4 | 46.8 |
| Attainment 8, disadvantaged | 33.9 (122nd) | 33.0 | 33.5 | 37.7 |
| Attainment 8, non-disadvantaged | 49.6 (68th) | 47.5 | 48.9 | 49.9 |
| Disadvantage gap (points) | 15.7 (13th) | 14.5 | 15.4 | 12.2 |
| Disadvantaged (FSM6) % | 28.8 (74th) | 25.5 | 17.1 | 28.4 |
| Overall absence % | 11.3 (1st) | 9.7 | 8.7 | 8.6 |
| Persistent absence % | 30.6 (4th) | 26.4 | 23.9 | 23.9 |
| Mean KS2 (centred) | 4.71 (50th) | 3.79 | 4.26 | 4.47 |
| EAL % | 13.0 (83rd) | 6.3 | 11.0 | 18.4 |
| Value added v2.1, all pupils | +1.4 | +0.0 | -0.3 | 0.0 |
| Value added v2.1, disadvantaged | +0.4 | -0.7 | -1.7 | 0.0 |
| Value added v2.1, non-disadvantaged | +1.5 | +0.1 | -0.4 | 0.0 |
| Absence against intake (pp) | +1.7 | +0.4 | -0.3 | 0.0 |
What explains attainment in Brighton and Hove
| Factor | All pupils | Disadvantaged | Non-disadvantaged |
|---|---|---|---|
| Absence | -2.11 | -2.34 | -1.75 |
| Special educational needs | -0.45 | -0.35 | -0.39 |
| Single-sex school | -0.14 | -0.16 | -0.13 |
| Disadvantage | -0.05 | -0.00 | +0.00 |
| Pupil mobility | -0.01 | -0.00 | -0.01 |
| English as an additional language | +0.05 | +0.10 | +0.05 |
| School stops at 16 | +0.11 | +0.11 | +0.13 |
| Other model terms | +0.17 | -0.27 | +0.11 |
| Unexplained (school) | +0.38 | +0.36 | +0.43 |
| Prior attainment (KS2) | +0.51 | +0.44 | +0.64 |
| Neighbourhood education | +1.13 | +0.31 | +1.28 |
| Place (region and local authority) | +1.30 | +0.17 | +1.44 |
For all pupils, Brighton and Hove is 0.9 points above England. The pieces of at least a quarter of a point:
- absence (-2.11);
- local authority (+1.70);
- neighbourhood education (+1.13);
- prior attainment (KS2) (+0.51);
- special educational needs (-0.45);
- region (-0.40);
- and the schools themselves (+0.38).
For disadvantaged pupils, Brighton and Hove is 1.7 points below England. The pieces of at least a quarter of a point:
- absence (-2.34);
- local authority (+1.40);
- region (-1.23);
- prior attainment (KS2) (+0.44);
- special educational needs (-0.35);
- neighbourhood education (+0.31);
- admissions (selection) (-0.28);
- and the schools themselves (+0.36).
For non-disadvantaged pupils, Brighton and Hove is 1.8 points above England. The pieces of at least a quarter of a point:
- local authority (+1.84);
- absence (-1.75);
- neighbourhood education (+1.28);
- prior attainment (KS2) (+0.64);
- region (-0.40);
- special educational needs (-0.39);
- and the schools themselves (+0.43).
Place: authorities and districts
Brighton and Hove’s large authority effect is almost all an absence effect: the city’s schools attain what similar intakes attain elsewhere, despite unusually high, mostly illness, absence. See Geographical effects: Brighton and Hove.
The district test adds a district level to the v2.1 model, with and without each school’s own record. An effect that disappears once schools are counted belongs to particular schools; one that survives is something the district’s schools share.
Brighton and Hove is a unitary authority, its own single district, so a district term would only duplicate the authority effect above; the test does not apply.
| District | Schools | All pupils | Disadvantaged | Non-disadvantaged | Girls | Boys | Absence vs intake | Above / below |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton and Hove | 10 | +1.4 | +0.4 | +1.5 | +1.0 | +1.7 | +1.7 | 5 / 0 |
Trusts
The v2.1 model with a multi-academy trust level, allowing for each school’s own record and for how it came to be an academy, so trusts that take on struggling schools are not penalised for it. Nationally a trust moves results by about 3.0%, and absence by about 6.5%.
The disadvantaged gap, and girls and boys
Of 10 schools:
- 8 are above expectation for both disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged pupils.
- 0 are above expectation for non-disadvantaged pupils but more than a point below it for disadvantaged ones: the gap schools.
- 3 have girls’ and boys’ value added more than two points apart.
| School | Disadvantaged | Non-disadvantaged | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Above expectation for both groups | |||
| Brighton Aldridge Community Academy | +2.4 | +2.6 | +0.2 |
| Hove Park School and Sixth Form Centre | +1.8 | +2.7 | +0.8 |
| Varndean School | +1.1 | +3.2 | +2.0 |
| Cardinal Newman Catholic School | +0.9 | +0.1 | -0.8 |
| Dorothy Stringer School | +0.9 | +3.0 | +2.1 |
| Blatchington Mill School | +0.7 | +0.6 | -0.1 |
| Portslade Aldridge Community Academy | +0.7 | +3.4 | +2.7 |
| King's School | +0.5 | +2.5 | +2.0 |
| School | Girls | Boys | Boys minus girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| Patcham High School | -3.5 | -0.5 | +3.0 |
| Portslade Aldridge Community Academy | +1.7 | +4.3 | +2.6 |
| Varndean School | +1.6 | +4.0 | +2.4 |
Absence
- 9.8% absence in autumn and spring 2025/26 (10.3% a year earlier), against 8.0% for England. These are all sessions together, so a large school counts for more than a small one; the full-year 2024/25 figures in what absence takes away are a mean of schools.
- Against its intake, on the v2.1 intake terms, the area’s schools ran 1.67 points above what their pupils’ profiles predict over 2021/22 to 2024/25 (East Sussex +0.37 and West Sussex -0.28).
- 7 schools run more than a point above their predictions: the top of the table below.
- King’s School runs more than a point below.
| School | Absence % | Predicted by intake % | Above prediction | Illness | Unauthorised | Reduced timetable | Suspended |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Longhill High School | 14.7 | 10.6 | +4.2 | 6.2 | 4.4 | 0.73 | 0.69 |
| Brighton Aldridge Community Academy | 16.0 | 12.2 | +3.7 | 5.7 | 5.4 | 0.56 | 0.18 |
| Blatchington Mill School | 10.3 | 8.0 | +2.3 | 6.2 | 2.4 | 0.02 | 0.08 |
| Portslade Aldridge Community Academy | 11.7 | 9.6 | +2.1 | 5.1 | 2.5 | 0.33 | 0.06 |
| Dorothy Stringer School | 10.4 | 8.2 | +2.1 | 5.7 | 2.7 | 0.21 | 0.09 |
| Hove Park School and Sixth Form Centre | 12.0 | 10.0 | +2.0 | 4.7 | 3.1 | 0.89 | 0.13 |
| Cardinal Newman Catholic School | 9.2 | 7.8 | +1.4 | 4.6 | 2.1 | 0.13 | 0.16 |
| Varndean School | 9.2 | 8.8 | +0.4 | 5.9 | 1.2 | 0.39 | 0.09 |
| Patcham High School | 8.8 | 9.0 | -0.2 | 5.1 | 2.4 | 0.17 | 0.00 |
| King's School | 6.7 | 8.0 | -1.4 | 4.8 | 0.3 | 0.10 | 0.10 |
What goes with absence here
The national absence analysis models seven kinds of absence in every secondary school in England, using autumn and spring 2025/26 and the January 2026 census. Here it is applied to Brighton and Hove’s 10 schools with full data. It compares them with England, with Sussex, the South East, East Sussex and West Sussex.
- Overall, Brighton and Hove’s schools have 27% more absence than England’s average school. Once their intake is allowed for, the difference is +13%.
- By kind, against England (in brackets, once intake is allowed for): illness is 51% higher (38% higher), unauthorised absence 12% higher (6% lower), and severe absence 52% higher (11% higher).
- What pushes absence up most here, against England, is special educational needs (+6% overall). Nothing in the intake holds it down much. For illness, the biggest push is special educational needs (+6%).
- Brighton and Hove’s own effect, after intake: illness +27% (2nd of 152 authorities), unauthorised -5% (110th).
- Blatchington Mill School, Longhill High School, Dorothy Stringer School and Cardinal Newman Catholic School each run more than a point above the absence their intake predicts.
| School | Overall | Above prediction | Illness | Unauthorised | Severe (50%+) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blatchington Mill School | 10.7 (7.7) | +3.0 | 6.2 (3.9) | 3.3 (2.4) | 6.3 (3.4) |
| Longhill High School | 13.9 (11.0) | +2.9 | 6.2 (3.9) | 4.8 (5.0) | 9.2 (6.3) |
| Dorothy Stringer School | 10.5 (7.9) | +2.6 | 5.7 (3.8) | 2.9 (2.6) | 6.2 (3.6) |
| Cardinal Newman Catholic School | 8.8 (7.1) | +1.7 | 4.6 (3.9) | 3.0 (1.9) | 3.5 (2.9) |
| Varndean School | 8.9 (8.4) | +0.5 | 5.9 (4.3) | 1.4 (2.6) | 4.1 (4.0) |
| Portslade Aldridge Community Academy | 9.6 (9.2) | +0.5 | 5.1 (3.9) | 3.3 (3.6) | 5.1 (4.7) |
| Brighton Aldridge Community Academy | 13.3 (12.9) | +0.4 | 5.7 (4.0) | 5.9 (7.0) | 7.1 (9.1) |
| Patcham High School | 9.0 (9.3) | -0.3 | 5.1 (4.3) | 3.0 (3.2) | 3.6 (4.8) |
| King's School | 6.4 (6.8) | -0.4 | 4.8 (3.9) | 0.6 (1.8) | 1.1 (2.4) |
| Hove Park School and Sixth Form Centre | 10.2 (11.0) | -0.9 | 4.7 (4.2) | 3.3 (4.6) | 4.6 (6.7) |
For heads and governors
The national page sets out what the school’s part in absence is. In short:
- Who runs a school, its size and its religious character make little difference to absence once intake is allowed for.
- Schools with the same intake can differ a great deal, and the differences persist from year to year.
The table compares each of Brighton and Hove’s schools with similar schools in its own authority, in 2024/25 and 2025/26. Click a school to open it in Find a twin, which finds its look-alikes across England, and the look-alikes that do much better.
- Cardinal Newman Catholic School and Blatchington Mill School have unauthorised absence more than 20% above similar schools in both years. That is the pattern worth asking about.
- King’s School and Varndean School have unauthorised absence more than 20% below similar schools in both years. What they do may be worth sharing.
| School | Overall 24/25 | Overall 25/26 | Unauthorised 24/25 | Unauthorised 25/26 | Severe 24/25 | Severe 25/26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cardinal Newman Catholic School | +13% | +16% | +51% | +69% | +1% | +21% |
| Blatchington Mill School | +28% | +30% | +49% | +47% | +55% | +85% |
| Dorothy Stringer School | +14% | +25% | -4% | +25% | +27% | +70% |
| Patcham High School | -21% | -9% | -8% | +7% | -42% | -25% |
| Longhill High School | +37% | +19% | +22% | +6% | +67% | +46% |
| Portslade Aldridge Community Academy | +11% | -1% | +30% | +3% | +29% | +8% |
| Brighton Aldridge Community Academy | +0% | -3% | +10% | -8% | -15% | -21% |
| Hove Park School and Sixth Form Centre | +6% | -13% | +10% | -19% | -8% | -31% |
| Varndean School | +1% | -1% | -36% | -36% | +13% | +2% |
| King's School | -13% | -11% | -44% | -56% | -9% | -51% |
Suspensions were 13.0 episodes per 100 pupils in 2024/25, against 21.2 for England. One pupil can be suspended several times: 5.9 pupils per 100 were suspended at least once, about 2.2 times each, against 7.3 per 100 and 2.9 times in England. Reduced timetables take 0.29% of sessions, 1.0 times England’s rate.
| School | Pupils | Suspension episodes per 100 | Pupils suspended per 100 | Permanent exclusions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Longhill High School | 723 | 65.3 | 19.9 | 0 |
| Hove Park School and Sixth Form Centre | 948 | 31.5 | 10.8 | 0 |
| Blatchington Mill School | 1635 | 12.8 | 6.4 | 0 |
| Cardinal Newman Catholic School | 2625 | 11.4 | 5.8 | 0 |
| Brighton Aldridge Community Academy | 813 | 9.5 | 7.4 | 0 |
| Dorothy Stringer School | 1626 | 7.5 | 4.1 | 1 |
| Varndean School | 1497 | 6.5 | 4.3 | 0 |
| Portslade Aldridge Community Academy | 928 | 5.3 | 3.1 | 0 |
| King's School | 903 | 4.8 | 3.1 | 0 |
| Patcham High School | 1099 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| School | Absence % | Gain, all pupils | Gain, disadvantaged |
|---|---|---|---|
| Longhill High School | 16.8 | +5.5 | +6.2 |
| Brighton Aldridge Community Academy | 15.2 | +5.1 | +6.7 |
| Hove Park School and Sixth Form Centre | 13.6 | +4.6 | +5.3 |
| Blatchington Mill School | 11.3 | +3.4 | +3.6 |
| Portslade Aldridge Community Academy | 11.6 | +3.0 | +3.2 |
| Dorothy Stringer School | 10.8 | +2.9 | +2.8 |
| Cardinal Newman Catholic School | 9.3 | +1.0 | +1.1 |
| Varndean School | 9.2 | +0.7 | +0.7 |
Over time
Value added is computed for every year separately, then averaged. A single year moves a good deal; a three-year moving average centred on a year (that year, the one before and the one after) shows the trajectory more steadily. Years at the ends use the years they have. 2025/26 is provisional and shown as a hollow point. The explorer lets you choose the centre year and the window.
On the three-year centred average from 2022/23 to 2024/25, the largest rises are at Blatchington Mill School (+3.8) and Patcham High School (+1.7) and the largest falls at Brighton Aldridge Community Academy (-1.8) and Portslade Aldridge Community Academy (-2.3). The later windows include the provisional 2025/26 year.
| School | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Varndean School | +4.2 | +3.3 | +4.4 |
| Blatchington Mill School | +0.3 | +2.0 | +4.1 |
| Dorothy Stringer School | +2.5 | +3.5 | +3.7 |
| King's School | +3.1 | +2.1 | +2.8 |
| Hove Park School and Sixth Form Centre | +2.8 | +3.0 | +2.3 |
| Portslade Aldridge Community Academy | +4.4 | +2.7 | +2.1 |
| Cardinal Newman Catholic School | +0.6 | +0.2 | +0.9 |
| Brighton Aldridge Community Academy | +2.5 | +2.4 | +0.7 |
| Patcham High School | -2.8 | -2.4 | -1.1 |
| Longhill High School | -1.0 | -2.7 | -2.3 |
Contextual league tables
Warning2025/26 is provisional
2025/26 is provisional: predicted from the v2.1 model using DfE’s provisional KS4 results (October 2026), with absence bridged from autumn and spring and the intake data not yet published carried forward. It will be updated with the revised KS4 release in February 2027. It is shown beside the four-year figure, not averaged into it, and is not shrunk: one provisional year of a school’s results moves a good deal.
| School | 2021/22 | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 | v2.1, four years (shrunk) | 95% interval | 2025/26 (provisional) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Varndean School | +3.7 | +3.0 | +6.0 | +1.0 | +3.1 | +0.9 to +5.4 | +6.3 |
| Portslade Aldridge Community Academy | +5.8 | +2.8 | +4.7 | +0.7 | +3.1 | +1.2 to +5.1 | +1.1 |
| Dorothy Stringer School | +2.7 | +2.1 | +2.6 | +5.6 | +3.0 | +0.8 to +5.3 | +2.9 |
| Hove Park School and Sixth Form Centre | +2.5 | +3.3 | +2.7 | +2.8 | +2.6 | +0.7 to +4.6 | +1.2 |
| Brighton Aldridge Community Academy | +2.5 | +2.5 | +2.5 | +2.1 | +2.2 | +0.7 to +3.8 | -2.3 |
| King's School | +3.0 | +0.4 | +5.8 | +0.2 | +2.1 | -0.2 to +4.6 | +2.3 |
| Blatchington Mill School | -1.3 | -0.9 | +2.9 | +4.1 | +1.2 | -0.9 to +3.4 | +5.3 |
| Cardinal Newman Catholic School | +1.5 | -1.6 | +1.9 | +0.3 | +0.6 | -1.6 to +2.9 | +0.5 |
| Longhill High School | +1.6 | -3.4 | -1.2 | -3.4 | -1.5 | -3.0 to +0.2 | -2.2 |
| Patcham High School | -2.4 | -2.5 | -3.6 | -1.1 | -2.0 | -4.0 to +0.1 | +1.3 |
| School | 2021/22 | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 | v2.1, four years (shrunk) | 95% interval | 2025/26 (provisional) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Aldridge Community Academy | +2.5 | -1.0 | +5.0 | +6.0 | +2.4 | +0.1 to +4.9 | -6.7 |
| Hove Park School and Sixth Form Centre | +3.6 | -0.7 | +2.8 | +3.1 | +1.8 | -0.9 to +4.8 | -1.5 |
| Varndean School | +2.2 | +2.6 | +3.6 | -2.9 | +1.1 | -1.9 to +4.5 | +0.8 |
| Cardinal Newman Catholic School | +2.1 | -6.1 | +5.6 | +2.5 | +0.9 | -2.3 to +4.3 | +0.7 |
| Dorothy Stringer School | +1.7 | +1.1 | -0.6 | +1.4 | +0.9 | -2.1 to +4.1 | -1.1 |
| Blatchington Mill School | -5.6 | +0.3 | +4.6 | +3.5 | +0.7 | -2.2 to +3.9 | +6.8 |
| Portslade Aldridge Community Academy | +3.5 | -3.0 | +4.6 | -1.7 | +0.7 | -2.0 to +3.5 | +0.9 |
| King's School | +4.1 | +0.8 | +4.0 | -6.3 | +0.5 | -2.8 to +4.1 | +3.5 |
| Patcham High School | +3.9 | +1.3 | -11.7 | -2.6 | -2.2 | -5.0 to +0.8 | -1.8 |
| Longhill High School | -4.7 | -8.1 | +0.5 | -2.5 | -2.8 | -4.9 to -0.5 | +0.3 |
| School | 2021/22 | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 | v2.1, four years (shrunk) | 95% interval | 2025/26 (provisional) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portslade Aldridge Community Academy | +5.8 | +4.1 | +4.1 | +1.3 | +3.4 | +1.2 to +5.6 | +1.8 |
| Varndean School | +3.5 | +2.6 | +6.0 | +1.9 | +3.2 | +0.7 to +5.7 | +7.1 |
| Dorothy Stringer School | +2.5 | +2.0 | +3.0 | +5.6 | +3.0 | +0.5 to +5.6 | +3.4 |
| Hove Park School and Sixth Form Centre | +1.8 | +4.6 | +2.5 | +2.8 | +2.7 | +0.5 to +4.9 | +3.1 |
| Brighton Aldridge Community Academy | +3.4 | +6.4 | +1.7 | +0.3 | +2.6 | +0.8 to +4.5 | +2.5 |
| King's School | +3.0 | +0.5 | +5.9 | +1.9 | +2.5 | -0.0 to +5.2 | +1.9 |
| Blatchington Mill School | -1.0 | -1.7 | +1.6 | +3.3 | +0.6 | -1.7 to +3.0 | +4.0 |
| Cardinal Newman Catholic School | +1.1 | -1.0 | +0.8 | -0.9 | +0.1 | -2.3 to +2.6 | -0.1 |
| Longhill High School | +4.7 | -2.2 | -2.5 | -3.5 | -0.9 | -2.7 to +1.0 | -3.8 |
| Patcham High School | -3.8 | -3.9 | -1.8 | -1.0 | -2.2 | -4.4 to +0.2 | +1.9 |
| School | 2021/22 | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 | v2.1, four years (shrunk) | 95% interval | 2025/26 (provisional) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Aldridge Community Academy | +4.0 | +4.1 | +3.0 | +2.0 | +2.7 | +0.8 to +4.7 | -6.3 |
| Hove Park School and Sixth Form Centre | +2.3 | +0.3 | +2.9 | +6.6 | +2.7 | +0.3 to +5.1 | +2.3 |
| Dorothy Stringer School | +3.2 | +2.4 | +3.0 | +2.6 | +2.4 | -0.3 to +5.3 | +4.3 |
| King's School | +4.5 | -0.5 | +5.6 | +0.6 | +2.1 | -0.8 to +5.2 | +3.4 |
| Portslade Aldridge Community Academy | +5.2 | +2.9 | +1.6 | -1.6 | +1.7 | -0.6 to +4.1 | +0.5 |
| Varndean School | +1.6 | +1.1 | +3.7 | +0.8 | +1.6 | -1.0 to +4.4 | +5.7 |
| Blatchington Mill School | -1.1 | +0.6 | +1.6 | +3.9 | +1.2 | -1.4 to +4.0 | +2.4 |
| Cardinal Newman Catholic School | +0.2 | -1.3 | +1.8 | +0.8 | +0.4 | -2.3 to +3.3 | -0.4 |
| Longhill High School | +0.2 | -3.2 | -2.4 | -3.2 | -1.8 | -3.7 to +0.2 | -6.9 |
| Patcham High School | -3.3 | -6.0 | -4.7 | -3.5 | -3.5 | -5.9 to -1.0 | +3.2 |
| School | 2021/22 | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 | v2.1, four years (shrunk) | 95% interval | 2025/26 (provisional) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portslade Aldridge Community Academy | +6.6 | +3.2 | +7.5 | +3.0 | +4.3 | +1.8 to +6.8 | +1.9 |
| Varndean School | +5.5 | +4.6 | +8.1 | +0.7 | +4.0 | +1.1 to +7.0 | +6.5 |
| Dorothy Stringer School | +1.9 | +1.9 | +2.7 | +8.4 | +3.2 | +0.4 to +6.2 | +1.7 |
| Hove Park School and Sixth Form Centre | +2.5 | +6.5 | +2.4 | -0.4 | +2.3 | -0.0 to +4.7 | +0.4 |
| King's School | +0.9 | +1.2 | +6.0 | -0.4 | +1.7 | -1.2 to +4.8 | +0.5 |
| Brighton Aldridge Community Academy | +1.0 | +1.5 | +1.6 | +2.4 | +1.4 | -0.4 to +3.4 | +1.0 |
| Blatchington Mill School | -1.6 | -2.5 | +3.8 | +4.5 | +1.0 | -1.6 to +3.8 | +8.3 |
| Cardinal Newman Catholic School | +2.6 | -2.4 | +1.4 | -0.6 | +0.3 | -2.4 to +3.3 | +0.9 |
| Patcham High School | -1.8 | +0.4 | -2.7 | +1.0 | -0.5 | -3.1 to +2.2 | -1.2 |
| Longhill High School | +2.8 | -3.6 | +0.0 | -3.5 | -0.9 | -2.9 to +1.1 | +1.9 |
Questions for discussion
- Disadvantaged pupils. Their value added averages +0.4 points across Brighton and Hove’s schools against +1.5 for other pupils. What do Brighton Aldridge Community Academy, Hove Park School and Sixth Form Centre and Varndean School, above expectation for them, do that others could share?
- Attendance is a lever here. Absence costs 2.1 points against England, and the area’s schools run 1.7 points above what their intakes predict.
- Practice. Reduced timetables and suspensions are close to or below the national rate.
- The authority. Brighton and Hove’s own v2.1 effect for disadvantaged pupils is +3.9% (18th of 151), distinguishable from zero, and for non-disadvantaged pupils +3.8% (4th).
Notes on method
Value Added v2.1 is described on the method page. The absence-against-intake measure, the district test, the trust analysis, the attendance-counted-in value added and the scenarios are refitted on the v2.1 specification by R/04_place_and_absence.R. The absence series, reasons and suspensions are the original project’s (R/17_area_analysis.R). School districts come from each school’s postcode. The decomposition splits each area’s mean log Attainment 8 against England’s into one piece per model term, exactly, and converts to points at England’s mean. This page is generated from templates/area.qmd by R/03_area_pages.R; the format is recorded in AREA_REPORTS.md.