Temple Gardens, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 3AS
10 reasons to choose Brighton Girls Prep School
Main point of differentiation
With a Schoolsmith Score® of 80, Brighton Girls Prep School is the only girls-only prep school in Brighton & Hove. It is selective, has a thematic curriculum, and particularly varied music, extra-curricular, and educational trips programmes.
School fundamentals
Brighton Girls Prep School is an independent prep day school for girls between the ages of 4 and 11 years. The school has an academically selective admissions policy. It is the prep school to Brighton and Hove High School, an all-through school to age 18. Brighton Girls Prep School fees range from £3,479 (Rec) to £4,025 per term (2023/24).
Average class size
Brighton Girls Prep School has one class per year to Year 2, two from Year 3, and an average class size of 12 pupils.
Leavers' destinations
80% of Brighton Girls Prep pupils move up to the senior school. 10% leave for Brighton College.
The Brighton Girls Prep School curriculum
School curriculum is based on the National Curriculum and also includes PSHE, philosophy, French. Integrated curriculum for science and the humanities to Year 2. ‘Connected curriculum’ from Year 3 links subjects to English texts. 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 and residential trips from Year 4.
Specialist teaching
Specialist teachers for sport, music, computing and languages throughout.
Sport at Brighton Girls Prep School
School offers PE and up to 10 seasonal sports. Competitive teams in major sports from Year 3.
The Arts at Brighton Girls Prep School
Art and music are taught as discrete curricular subjects to all pupils. Drama is part of the co-curriculum. All pupils learn an instrument in class and two-thirds take extra-curricular instrument lessons from Year 3. Three choirs, orchestra and several instrument ensembles. Each pupil may participate in up to 10 different extra-curricular creative and performing arts clubs.
Wraparound care
Wraparound care from 7.30am to 6.00pm. Minibus service.
Find another school near Brighton Girls Prep School
The Montessori Place, Elementary (0.9 miles); The Drive Prep School (KS2) (1.3 miles); Lancing Prep Hove (1.4 miles).
Aldrington Church of England Primary School (2.4 miles); Westdene Primary School (3.2 miles); Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School, Rottingdean (5.1 miles).
Brighton Girls GDST (0 miles); The Montessori Place (0.9 miles);The Drive Prep School (1.3 miles).
Brighton Hove and Sussex Sixth Form College (0.7 miles); City College Brighton and Hove (1.4 miles); Blatchington Mill School and Sixth Form College (2.6 miles).