The 22 leading state primary schools in Sussex for 2024 - from new official performance data

The data’s in, and these Sussex schools were last year’s highest achievers 🏆

The most recent school year’s results have shown once again that Sussex has no shortage of fantastic primary schools, from East to West.

The government’s preliminary performance figures for state-funded primary schools were released last month, shortly after it published its delayed performance figures for secondary schools. From this data, we’ve been able to compare how the hundreds of primary schools across East and West Sussex, plus Brighton and Hove, did in the most recent school year - to create a league table of its top performers.

Our list is primarily based on the percentage of each school’s pupils who completed Year 6 in the 2023/24 academic year, and met the government’s expected standards in three areas: reading, writing and maths. We’ve included only schools which had at least 80% of their young pupils hit this target. Smaller village and faith schools, and larger ones in the likes of Crawley, Horsham, Hastings and Bexhill have all made the list, as have some familiar names from last year’s primary school league table.

We’ve also made sure that each school included had an overall Ofsted rating of ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ before this measure was recently dropped, or, if they’ve been inspected more recently, had at least ‘good’ grades across the board. This means that the quality of education provided, student behaviour and attitudes, school leadership and management and student safeguarding were all found to meet or exceed government standards last time the school was inspected.

Here are the 22 schools from across Sussex that came out on top:

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