Blatchington Mill School
Community school · 1,622 pupils
91% stayed in education · Attainment 8 51.0
Community special school
Hill Park School
- Pupils on roll
- 283
- Free school meals
- 42.6%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 36
- Ofsted
- Outstanding, 8 June 2022Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Downs Park School (URN 114685, until 1 September 2018).
What the data says
Of the 22 pupils who finished Year 11 at Hill Park School in 2023, none moved to a sixth form college, 59% to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.
Every pupil in the 2023 cohort went on to a sustained destination, against 92% across England.
Almost every leaver found a sustained destination: only 0% were not in education, work or training six months on, against 6% nationally.
Almost nobody goes straight into an apprenticeship or a job: none took an apprenticeship and none went into work, against 3% and 3% across England.
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 | Hill Park School | Brighton and Hove | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 22 | 2,405 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 100% | 93% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 100% | 90% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 0% | 13% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 0% | 55% | 13% |
| — further education college | 59% | 19% | 37% |
| — other education | 41% | 3% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 0% | 2% | 3% |
| Employment | 0% | 2% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 0% | 5% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 0% | 2% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | Hill Park School | Brighton and Hove | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 3.4 | 46.2 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 3% | 48% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 8% | 67% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 0% | 53% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 0.17 | 4.24 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 47% | 27% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 1.8 | 32.5 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 4.9 | 51.2 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 0% | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language | 8 | 22% | 89% | 13% | 20% | 63% |
| Mathematics | 8 | 22% | 88% | 0% | 22% | 50% |
| Biology | 4 | 11% | 23% | — | 45% | — |
| English Literature | 2 | 6% | 86% | — | 21% | — |
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.