Brighton College
One of the country’s leading schools for girls and boys aged 3-18, regularly achieving the best A-level and GCSE results of any co-ed school in the UK.
Ideal student
Girls and boys who not only want to pursue their own hopes, but also want to make a difference to people and the environment around them.
Main sports
Rugby, netball, cricket, football and hockey.
Stand-out facilities
With many award-winning buildings, our newest contains a 400-seat theatre, dance studio, drama studio and Global Futures Centre.
Saturday school
No Saturday school, but a wide variety of sports fixtures plus an exciting boarders' programme.
Did you know?
Brighton College set up the first school magazine and school gym.
Our takeaway
Innovative and outward-looking, this is a school where academic ambition thrives and kindness is at the heart of everything.
"It is a rare privilege to live and work alongside so many engaged, inquisitive and enthusiastic teenagers: to see them achieve soaring successes, but to see them learn, too, that mistakes and disappointment are also part of life; to encourage them as they pursue their passions and interests, but also to nudge them towards new activities and ideas, away from the safety of the shore to venture on wilder seas; to see each child grow in confidence as a unique, remarkable person, understanding, too, that they have much to contribute to the communities of which they are a part."
School Information
| Year | A* – A | A* – B |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 76.6 | 96.3 | 2018 | 83.1 | 98.7 | 2019 | 82.5 | 97.2 | 2022 | 99 | 2023 | 82 | 97 |
| Year | 9 - 8 | 9 - 7 |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 55.4 | 87.7 | 2018 | 72.4 | 90.4 | 2019 | 80 | 94.5 | 2022 | 2023 | 77 | 92.6 |
| Destination | Percentage (%) |
|---|---|
| Oxbridge | 19% |
| Sutton 13 The 13 best UK universities based on average rankings from surveys: Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Durham, Edinburgh, Imperial, LSE, Nottingham, Oxford, St Andrews, UCL, Warwick, York. | 51% |
| Other UK Universities | 20% |
| US Ivy League | -7% |
| Other US Universities | 1% |
| European Universities | -16% |
| Other international Universities | 1% |
