Walpole Lodge, Walpole Road, Brighton, East Sussex BN2 0EU
10 reasons to choose Brighton College Prep School
Main point of differentiation
With a Schoolsmith Score® of 87, Brighton College Prep School is the highest scoring prep school in Brighton & Hove. It has a traditional curriculum with the most varied sports, arts and extra-curricular programme.
School fundamentals
Brighton College Prep School is an independent prep day school for boys and girls (50%/50%) between the ages of 3 and 11 years. It is a Church of England school, open to all faiths and none. The school has an academically selective admissions policy. It is the prep school to Brighton College, an all-through school to age 18. Brighton College Prep School fees range from £5,442 (Rec) to £9,212 per term (2025/26). Fees include VAT and lunches.
Average class size
Brighton College Prep School has two classes per year to Year 1, three thereafter, and an average class size of 19 pupils.
Leavers' destinations
Most Prep pupils move up to Brighton College at the end of Year 6.
The Brighton College Prep School curriculum
School curriculum is based on the National Curriculum and the ISEB Common Entrance curriculum with some additions and variations. It also includes PSHE, French, Mandarin. School has a Dyslexia Centre with 7 teaching rooms and 36 workstations. Tailored support provided in groups of 7-9. The school offers each pupil between 5 and 10 different extra-curricular academic activities or hobby clubs.
More on the curriculum
There are regular educational trips for all year groups, visiting speakers, Beach School to Year 3 and a residential trip in Year 6.
Specialist teaching
Specialist teachers for sport, music, languages, and art throughout, for DT, home economics and drama from Year 4, and for all subjects in Year 6.
Sport at Brighton College Prep School
School offers between 10 and 15 different sports over the course of the year. Competitive teams in major sports from Year 3. In recent years the school has enjoyed national success in athletics, football, golf, netball, rounders.
The Arts at Brighton College Prep School
Art and music are taught as discrete curricular subjects to all pupils, as is drama from Year 4. Dance features in the co-curriculum and there is the Brighton College School of Dance. All pupils learn an instrument in class and two-thirds take extra-curricular instrument lessons from Year 3. Four choirs, two orchestras and several instrument ensembles. The school offers each pupil over 5 different extra-curricular creative and performing arts clubs.
Wraparound care
Wraparound care from 8.00am to 5.45pm.
Find another school near Brighton College Prep School
Windlesham School (2.6 miles); Lancing Prep Hove (3 miles); St Christopher’s School, Hove (3.3 miles).
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Brighton College (0.1 miles); Roedean School (1.9 miles); Brighton Girls (2.1 miles).
City College Brighton and Hove (1.1 miles); Brighton Hove and Sussex Sixth Form College (1.9 miles); Blatchington Mill School and Sixth Form College (3.7 miles).