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Portslade Aldridge Community Academy

Chalky Road, Portslade, Brighton, BN41 2WS

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ALDRIDGE EDUCATION is the academy trust. Admissions rules still sit with the school and your local council.

OfstedNo overall grade

At a glance

Key published figures for this school.

OfstedNo overall grade
Attendance (2024/25)88.7%
Attainment (2024/25)Attainment 8: 42.7
Roll vs capacityAround published capacity
Pupils910

Ofsted inspection

Latest Ofsted report card

Report card grades

Safeguarding
Met
Inclusion
Strong standard
Curriculum and teaching
Expected standard
Achievement
Expected standard
Attendance and behaviour
Needs attention
Personal development and wellbeing
Expected standard
Leadership and governance
Expected standard

Ofsted grades each area on its own, from urgent improvement up to exceptional. Expected standard means the school is doing everything it should. These grades cannot be compared with the old overall grades.

Report published 25 Mar 2026.

Inspection history

  • Latest ungradedSchool remains Good
  • Previous gradedRequires improvement

This page shows previous graded and latest ungraded outcomes when Ofsted publishes them in the national file. Full history stays on the Ofsted report.

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School figures

Coloured bars compare this school with the average for other schools in BN41. Where we have them, council (Brighton and Hove) and England figures appear under FSM, SEN and attendance. FSM, SEN and EAL are context, not quality scores. For attendance, higher is usually better.

Pupils on roll
910
Free school meals
31.6%
0.9% above district average (30.7%)

Also: Brighton and Hove 25.3% · England 25.8%

SEN
23%
10.6% below district average (33.6%)

Also: Brighton and Hove 23.5% · England 16.5%

EAL
7.5%
4.9% below district average (12.4%)
Attendance
88.7% Autumn and spring 2024/25
3.7% below district average (92.4%)

Also: Brighton and Hove 89.7% · England 91.9%

Each metric uses its own colour so you can tell the rows apart. The lighter bar is the BN41 average; the darker bar is this school.

Compared with England

Persistent absence is 2024/25. Headline GCSE measures are 2024/25. Progress 8 is from 2023/24, the latest year published for this school. There is no Progress 8 for 2024/25 or 2025/26, because those pupils did not sit Key Stage 2 tests during the pandemic. England is the state-funded average from the same tables. Progress 8 of 0 is typical.

Persistent absence2024/25

26.1%

4.2% above England (21.9%)

Progress 82023/24

-0.01

0.01 below England (0.00)

Attainment 82024/25

42.7

3.4 below England (46.1)

Grade 5+ English & maths2024/25

42.7%

2.7% below England (45.4%)

Grade 4+ English & maths2024/25

60.9%

3.9% below England (64.8%)

Entered for EBacc2024/25

66.7%

26.2% above England (40.5%)

EBacc average point score2024/25

4.18

0.1 above England (4.09)

Trends

Attendance

Autumn and spring 2024/25 from DfE pupil absence data (where published for this URN). The headline above uses the same period.

  • 94.3%
    2020/21
  • 88.7%
    2021/22
  • 88.4%
    2022/23
  • 89%
    2023/24
  • 88.7%
    2024/25

Admissions

Applications and offers (September 2026 entry)

For September 2026 entry, 150 families put this school first. All of them were offered a place here.

Named as first preference
150
First-preference offers
150
First preferences offered a place
100%
Total offers
172
Named on any preference
338

This is historic demand from one admissions round. It is not a guarantee of a place, and it does not show a catchment area. Admission rules and priorities differ by school.

SourceDfE applications and offers, September 2026 entryPublished 18th of June 2026.

How full the building is

Roll versus published capacity
Around published capacity
Published capacity (GIAS)
1075
Pupils on roll
910

Pupils on roll compared with the capacity published in GIAS. This is about building size, not applications or offers, and it is not a guarantee of a place.

Applications and offers come from DfE. Last distance offered and catchment areas are not published nationally. Your council admissions booklet has those details.

Check your council admissions booklet via the Brighton and Hove page.

SEN support

SEN %
23%

A higher SEN percentage can mean experience with support needs, or more demand on staff. Ask the SENCO what is available day to day.

Schools near Portslade Aldridge Community Academy

Distances are in a straight line from this school. They are not catchment areas.

Other nearby schools

All schools in BN41 · Schools in Brighton and Hove

Sources and freshness

  • School year for most DfE figures: 2024/25.
  • Pipeline last checked: Oct 2026.
  • Council and England attendance / FSM tables: 2024/25.
  • School figures from DfE / GIAS / Ofsted where published. District averages use other schools in this postcode district. Council and England figures use DfE local authority and national tables for the matching phase.
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