Hailsham Academy
All-through · Hailsham · BN27 1DT
Data updated
Graded inspection under the pre-November 2025 system
This is an overall-effectiveness grade from the previous inspection framework. The school has not yet had a report-card inspection.
Ofsted placed this school in a statutory category of concern, serious weaknesses, at the inspection of 13 March 2023. It stands until a later inspection lifts it.
Inspected 13 March 2023
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
1,577 pupils · 72% of 2,181 capacity (January 2026 census)
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 2–16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Free school meals
- 27.3% of pupils (January 2026)
- Nursery
- Yes
- Website
- www.hailsham-academy.org
- URN
- 152097
In figures
For September 2026 entry, 128 families named it first for 198 Year 7 places, 0.65 first choices per place. We hold 10 Year 7 admissions rounds for it, 2017 to 2026; none was decided by a published distance. Ofsted last graded it Inadequate on 13 March 2023, under the framework used before November 2025. In the 2025/26 autumn and spring terms its pupils missed 11.3% of sessions, against 6.6% across England.
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.12 first-choice applications per place60 places offered · 67 first-choice applications · oversubscribed
Source: DfE applications and offers on national offer day · how demand is measured
Admissions demand: Year 7 entry, September 2026
0.65 first-choice applications per place198 places offered · 128 first-choice applications · usually has places
Source: DfE applications and offers on national offer day · how demand is measured
Catchment area
Catchment area: not named in the council's figures. The council did not publish a cutoff distance for 2026 entry.
Admissions cutoff distance: Reception
The council did not publish a cutoff distance for 2026 entry.
Source: the admissions authority's published figures · how cutoffs work
Admissions cutoff distance: Year 7
Every applicant was offered a place for 2026 entry, so distance was not needed to decide places.
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Source: the admissions authority's published figures · how cutoffs work
Compare admissions across the area: Hailsham school admissions · East Sussex school admissions
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
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GCSE results (2024/2025)
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Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025 · what “suppressed” means
Special educational needs
Needs this school records that it caters for, in the order it lists them.
- Severe Learning Difficulty
Provision type: Resourced provision.
- Resourced provision
- 12 of 12 places taken full, or over capacity
Unit places come from the school census and describe the position when it was taken, not today. Confirm with the local authority before relying on them.
Pupils by ethnicity (January 2026)
White British 88% (East Sussex 80%, England 59%) · Any other White background 2% (East Sussex 5%, England 7%) · Not recorded 2% (East Sussex 2%, England 2%) · Any other Mixed background 1% (East Sussex 2%, England 3%) · Any other Asian background 1% (East Sussex 1%, England 3%) · Mixed White and Black Caribbean 1% (East Sussex 1%, England 2%) · Mixed White and Asian 1% (East Sussex 2%, England 2%) · Mixed White and Black African 1% (East Sussex 1%, England 1%) · White Gypsy/Roma 1% (East Sussex 0%, England 0%) · Asian Indian 1% (East Sussex 1%, England 4%) · other groups together 2%
Source: DfE schools, pupils and their characteristics, January 2026 census · how to read these figures
Attendance (2025/26 autumn and spring terms)
Suspensions and permanent exclusions (2024/25)
0 permanent exclusions · England, secondary schools: 21.24 suspensions and 0.23 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils · East Sussex: 29.68 suspensions and 0.13 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils
Source: DfE pupil absence data, autumn and spring terms, and DfE suspensions and permanent exclusions, school-level file · how absence is measured · how to read exclusions
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Vacancies (November 2025)
0% of teaching posts vacant, 0% filled temporarily · England, secondary academies: 0.45% vacant, 0.33% temporary
Teacher pay (November 2025)
Mean salary of full-time qualified teachers £54,453; 3.7% on the leadership pay range · England, secondary schools: £53,766, 11.3%
Source: DfE School Workforce Census · how these figures are counted
The area around the school
- Child poverty (IDACI)
- 6/10around the middle for England
- Overall deprivation (IMD)
- 7/10less deprived than most of England
| Census 2021 | This area | England |
|---|---|---|
| Adults with a degree or higher | 23% | 33.9% |
| Adults with no qualifications | 20% | 18.1% |
| In managerial or professional work | 29.1% | 33.2% |
| Households deprived in two or more ways | 16.3% | 18.1% |
| Residents in very good health | 39.5% | 48.5% |
| Homes owned by the occupier | 84.3% | 62.3% |
| Social housing | 2.1% | 17.1% |
| Privately rented | 13.6% | 20.5% |
| Detached houses | 37% | 22.9% |
| Flats | 2.8% | 22.2% |
| Homes with four or more bedrooms | 16.6% | 21.1% |
| Households with no car or van | 17.3% | 23.5% |
These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Source: Census 2021 (ONS) and English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG) for small area E01021176 · how to read area figures
What homes cost nearby
- Median sale price
- £280,000451 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to September 2026
- Typical range
- £240,000–£350,000the middle half of sales
- England median
- £300,000all sales over the same period
Homes around this school are cheaper than most school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.
Source: HM Land Registry sales within 1 km since January 2024 · how sales are counted. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Postcodes located with OS Code-Point Open: contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026; contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
Roads around the school
- Child pedestrian casualties
- 2an urban school averages 2.0
- Collisions at school-run times
- 3an urban school averages 5.7
- All reported collisions
- 24an urban school averages 30.5
- Of those, serious or fatal
- 6an urban school averages 6.1
A high count usually reflects traffic, not an unsafe school. Source: DfT road casualty statistics (STATS19), collisions within 500 m, 2021–2025 · what is counted