Bilingual Primary School - Brighton & Hove, Brighton and Hove

Ofsted's report card from its 17 March 2026 inspection grades Bilingual Primary School - Brighton & Hove on 7 areas: 5 expected standard and 2 needs attention. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Achievement - Expected standard. "Pupils achieve well across the school."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Leaders typically have a clear understanding of the quality of the curriculum and teaching."

Early years - Expected standard. "Staff welcome children into the early years with warmth and care."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders have established an inclusive culture."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Leaders ensure that pupils experience a coherent and suitably sequenced personal development programme."

Attendance and behaviour - Needs attention. "The school's overall attendance, and the attendance of pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities, is in line with national figures."

Leadership and governance - Needs attention. "Leaders have not ensured that pupils experience consistently positive behaviour for learning."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should continue to embed the approach to handwriting so pupils acquire the foundational skills and knowledge they need"; "Leaders should continue their work to ensure that all groups of pupils attend school more regularly"; "Leaders should ensure that all staff have consistently high expectations of pupils' behaviour and attitudes to learning".

In 2025, 88% of Year 6 pupils at Bilingual Primary School - Brighton & Hove reached the expected standard in reading and 86% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 75% and 69% in Brighton and Hove and 77% and 75% across England.

Results were similar in 2024 (90% in reading, 86% in maths).

For September 2026 entry, 83 families put Bilingual Primary School - Brighton & Hove as their first choice and 260 named it as one of their preferences, for 89 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

The nearest other state primary schools to Bilingual Primary School - Brighton & Hove are Aldrington CofE Primary School (0.2 miles, Good, 78% reading, 70% maths); Cottesmore St Mary's Catholic Primary School (0.8 miles, Good, 80% reading, 78% maths); Goldstone Primary School (0.8 miles, Good, 79% reading, 78% maths); and St Andrew's CofE (Aided) Primary School (0.9 miles, Good, 80% reading, 80% maths).

Bilingual Primary School - Brighton & Hove's 2025 results were higher than all 4 of them.

Bilingual Primary School - Brighton & Hove is run by its own single-school academy trust.

116 parents answered Ofsted's Parent View survey about Bilingual Primary School - Brighton & Hove (as of April 2026): 95% would recommend the school, 96% say their child is happy there and 80% of those with a view say bullying is dealt with well.

The strongest agreement was that their child is happy at the school (96%); the weakest, that the school deals with bullying well (among parents with a view) (80%).

11.6% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well below the average state school (25%), according to the 2026 school census.

In 2026, 79 pupils (12.9%) received SEN support and 9 (1.5%) had an education, health and care plan, against 16.2% and 4.6% at the average state school. The most common need among them is a specific learning difficulty such as dyslexia.

The nearest railway station is Hove Rail Station, about 1000 metres away (roughly a 12-minute walk).

13 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Hove Park North (adjacent), 190 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Bilingual Primary School - Brighton & Hove stands in is among the 20% least deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In 2024/25, Bilingual Primary School - Brighton & Hove issued 5 suspensions, 0.8 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The secondary schools closest to Bilingual Primary School - Brighton & Hove are Hove Park School and Sixth Form Centre (0.3 miles), Blatchington Mill School (0.3 miles), Cardinal Newman Catholic School (0.9 miles) and King's School (1 mile).