Blatchington Mill School
Community school · 1,622 pupils
91% stayed in education · Attainment 8 51.0
Academy sponsor led
Portslade Aldridge Community Academy
- Pupils on roll
- 910of 1,075 places
- Free school meals
- 31.6%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 192
- Ofsted
- Report card, 20 January 2026Read the Ofsted report
Curriculum and teaching Expected standardAchievement Expected standardAttendance and behaviour Needs attentionPersonal development and wellbeing Expected standardInclusion Strong standardLeadership and governance Expected standardPost-16 provision Not applicableSafeguarding Met
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Portslade Community College (URN 114599, until 1 September 2011).
What the data says
Of the 168 pupils who finished Year 11 at Portslade Aldridge Community Academy in 2023, 8% stayed on in Portslade Aldridge Community Academy’s own sixth form (Brighton and Hove average 13%), 32% went to a further education college and 2% started an apprenticeship.
Sixth form colleges are the main next step: 43% of leavers went to one, roughly three times the England rate of 13%.
Fine Art is unusually popular at GCSE: 20% of the year group took it, against 9% of pupils across England.
GCSE results in 2025 were below the national picture: Attainment 8 of 42.7 against 46.1 across England and 46.2 in Brighton and Hove, with 43% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).
Where pupils went after Year 11
Destinations of the 2023 Year 11 leavers, measured the following year: the share in a sustained place for at least two terms. Compared with all state-funded schools in Brighton and Hove and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | This school | Brighton and Hove | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 168 | 2,405 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 89% | 93% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 85% | 90% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 8% | 13% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 43% | 55% | 13% |
| — further education college | 32% | 19% | 37% |
| — other education | 2% | 3% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 2% | 2% | 3% |
| Employment | 2% | 2% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 8% | 5% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 3% | 2% | 3% |
Where students went after sixth form
Destinations of students who finished 16–18 study in 2023, measured the following year.
No published destinations for sixth-form leavers yet.
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | This school | Brighton and Hove | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 42.7 | 46.2 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 43% | 48% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 61% | 67% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 67% | 53% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 4.18 | 4.24 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 30% | 27% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 31.1 | 32.5 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 47.5 | 51.2 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 7% | 15% | 19% |
Progress 8 is not available for 2025 and 2026: these cohorts had no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021, so there is no baseline. Attainment 8 shows results without taking pupils’ starting points into account.
Subjects taken at GCSE
Entries in 2025 as a share of the Year 11 cohort, and the share of entries graded 7–9 and 4–9, compared with all entries in England.
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England | Grades 7–9 | England | Grades 4–9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mathematics | 191 | 99% | 88% | 22% | 22% | 70% |
| English Language | 191 | 99% | 89% | 11% | 20% | 63% |
| English Literature | 178 | 93% | 86% | 7% | 21% | 66% |
| Combined Science | 150 | 78% | 65% | 11% | 9% | 65% |
| Geography | 100 | 52% | 41% | 16% | 25% | 62% |
| Spanish | 76 | 40% | 19% | 24% | 27% | 74% |
| History | 64 | 33% | 41% | 14% | 26% | 64% |
| French | 51 | 27% | 18% | 33% | 29% | 86% |
| Business Studies | 46 | 24% | 18% | 20% | 20% | 54% |
| Computer Science | 40 | 21% | 13% | 33% | 30% | 78% |
| Fine Art | 39 | 20% | 9% | 8% | 28% | 69% |
| Physics | 30 | 16% | 23% | 73% | 46% | 100% |
| Chemistry | 29 | 15% | 23% | 76% | 47% | 100% |
| Biology | 29 | 15% | 23% | 69% | 45% | 100% |
| Sociology | 20 | 10% | 4% | 20% | 21% | 70% |
| Physical Education | 20 | 10% | 11% | 10% | 24% | 65% |
| Photography | 17 | 9% | 6% | 0% | 19% | 59% |
| Arabic | 2 | 1% | 1% | — | 47% | — |
| Chinese | 1 | 1% | 1% | — | 75% | — |
| Persian | 1 | 1% | 0% | — | 77% | — |
| Italian | 1 | 1% | 0% | — | 53% | — |
| Modern Greek | 1 | 1% | 0% | — | 33% | — |
| Turkish | 1 | 1% | 0% | — | 71% | — |
Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hospitality / Catering Studies | 75 | — | — |
| Multimedia | 33 | — | — |
| Health Studies | 32 | — | — |
| Dance: General | 22 | — | — |
| Sports Studies | 18 | — | — |
| Music performance: Group | 16 | — | — |
Other secondary schools in Brighton and Hove
Brighton Aldridge Community Academy
Academy sponsor led · sixth form · 808 pupils
75% stayed in education · Attainment 8 36.2
Cardinal Newman Catholic School
Voluntary aided school · sixth form · 2,657 pupils
92% stayed in education · Attainment 8 50.4
Dorothy Stringer School
Community school · 1,626 pupils
93% stayed in education · Attainment 8 53.3
Hove Park School and Sixth Form Centre
Community school · sixth form · 941 pupils
91% stayed in education · Attainment 8 41.1
King's School
Free schools · sixth form · 925 pupils
93% stayed in education · Attainment 8 53.7
Sources: Department for Education school and college performance tables 2024/2025 (Key Stage 4 and 16–18 results, subject entries, destination measures for 2023 leavers); Get Information About Schools register as at 19 September 2026; Ofsted management information as at 31 August 2026. Small numbers are suppressed by DfE and shown as “—”. How to read these figures.