How far do you need to live from a school in Brighton and Hove to get a place?

It depends on the school. Across the 10 Brighton and Hove schools with a published figure, the last child admitted lived a median of 0.93 miles away; the tightest was Carlton Hill Primary School at 0.35 miles. The distance moves every year with demand.

Do Brighton and Hove schools have catchment areas?

Most English schools do not. When a school is oversubscribed, places are offered outward from the school until they run out, so what exists is how far the last admitted child lived, which the council publishes after each round. That is the figure on this page.

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How far Brighton and Hove schools admitted from

For every oversubscribed school, Brighton and Hove publishes how far away the last child offered a place lived. This is that figure for 10 schools, tightest first. A short distance means a school that fills up close to its gates; a long one means places went further afield.

10schools with a published figure

0.93 mithe middle school's distance

6filled within a mile

The tightest is Carlton Hill Primary School at 0.35 miles in 2025/26; the most far-reaching, Saltdean Primary School, admitted from 3.39 miles.

Primary schools

School	Ofsted	Admitted from	Round	How full
Carlton Hill Primary School BRIGHTON	No current grade	0.35 mi	2025/26	99%
Downs Infant School Brighton	No current grade	0.47 mi	2025/26	96%
Rudyard Kipling Primary School & Nursery Brighton	No current grade	0.48 mi	2025/26	72%
Hertford Primary School Brighton	No current grade	0.61 mi	2025/26	94%
Balfour Primary School Brighton	Good	0.7 mi	2025/26	97%
Stanford Infant School Brighton	Good	0.93 mi	2025/26	73%
St Luke's Primary School Brighton	No current grade	1.28 mi	2025/26	99%
Westdene Primary School Brighton	No current grade	1.41 mi	2025/26	89%
Coombe Road Primary School Brighton	No current grade	1.8 mi	2025/26	91%
Saltdean Primary School Brighton	Good	3.39 mi	2025/26	83%

Reading the numbers

These are not catchment areas: most English schools have none. Each figure is the distance from the school to the home of the furthest child who was offered a place under the distance criterion in that round, as Brighton and Hove measures it, which is usually a straight line from a fixed point at the home to one at the school. Looked-after children, siblings and, at faith schools, faith criteria come before distance, so a school can fill before distance is reached at all. The figure moves every year with the number of applications. How the whole process works →

Checking an address against these

Each school's page has a checker that measures a postcode against that school's distance. The full property report measures every nearby school at once, alongside sold prices, flood risk and the rest of the house.

Admission distances published by Brighton and Hove. School details and grades from the Department for Education's register and Ofsted. If a figure looks wrong, tell us and it goes on the accuracy log.