Queen's Park Primary School
Park Street, Brighton, BN2 0BN
- Phase
- Primary
- School type
- Community school
- Ages
- 4 to 11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Headteacher
- Ms Emma Gale
- Constituency
- Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Capacity
- 420
- Pupils on roll
- 286
- URN
- 114478
- Local authority
- Brighton and Hove
- Website
- School website
- Telephone
- 01273686822
About this school
Queen's Park Primary School is a community primary school in Brighton. It teaches children aged 4 to 11 and has 286 pupils on roll.
You can read Ofsted's latest judgement for the school below. Where the Department for Education has published them, its results and pupil characteristics appear below. Numbers and a report only go so far, so visit in person before you apply.
Ofsted judgement
Overall judgement at the last full inspection
This inspection took place under the previous framework, which gave a single overall grade. Ofsted now publishes report cards instead, so newer inspections of other schools will look different. How Ofsted report cards work
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Requires improvement
- Personal development
- Requires improvement
- Leadership and management
- Requires improvement
- Early years
- Requires improvement
- Safeguarding
- Effective
Exam results
Key stage 2 (end of primary school)
| Measure | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of key stage 2 | 43 | 54 | 30 |
| Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths | 37% | 50% | 30% |
| Reached the higher standard in reading, writing and maths | 0% | 0% | 3% |
| Expected standard in reading | 56% | 65% | 57% |
| Expected standard in maths | 51% | 63% | 47% |
| Expected standard in grammar, punctuation and spelling | 40% | 61% | 53% |
| Average scaled score in reading | 102.0 | 103.0 | 101.0 |
| Average scaled score in maths | 99.0 | 100.0 | 99.0 |
| Reading progress | -0.80 | - | - |
| Writing progress | 0.00 | - | - |
| Maths progress | -2.30 | - | - |
Progress measures ended nationally after the 2022/23 school year, when the key stage 1 assessments they were based on were stopped. Blank progress figures in later years are not missing school data.
Trends over time
How Queen's Park Primary School has moved over recent years against the local and national picture. Every figure is shown in the table beneath its chart.
| Year | This school | Brighton and Hove average | England average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 37% | 55.8% | 57.9% |
| 2023/24 | 50% | 56% | 58.8% |
| 2024/25 | 30% | 55.3% | 60.3% |
Department for Education KS2 performance data, published school results.
| Year | This school | England average |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 8.6% | 6.8% |
| 2023/24 | 7.7% | 6.6% |
| 2024/25 | 9.1% | 6.2% |
Department for Education pupil absence data.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 329 |
| 2023/24 | 308 |
| 2024/25 | 315 |
School census, spring count each academic year.
How Queen's Park Primary School compares
Queen's Park Primary School ranked 43rd of 43 primary schools in Brighton and Hove for KS2 results in 2024/25. Its KS2 result was higher than 7% of England primary schools that published results in 2024/25. Its absence rate was lower than 11% of England schools in 2024/25.
| School | KS2 RWM (2024/25) | Absence | FSM (6 years) | Pupils | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 30% | 9.1% | 48.3% | 286 | — |
| Carlton Hill Primary School | 74% | 6.9% | 34.9% | 215 | 0.3 miles |
| St Luke's Primary School | 60% | 5.4% | 18.7% | 622 | 0.4 miles |
| St John the Baptist Catholic Primary School | 40% | 7.7% | 41.8% | 193 | 0.5 miles |
| Elm Grove Primary School | 39% | 5.8% | 20.2% | 404 | 0.6 miles |
| St Mark's CofE Primary School | 33% | 8.4% | 59.6% | 156 | 0.7 miles |
Results reflect each school's cohort as much as its teaching, and free school meals share is context, not a judgement. Small gaps between neighbouring schools are rarely meaningful on their own.
School context
From the 2024/25 school census and absence figures.
- Free school meals (last 6 years)
- 48.25%
- English as an additional language
- 34.9%
- Overall absence
- 9.13%
- Persistent absence
- 32.97%
Location
Nearby schools
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Carlton Hill Primary School0.3 miles
Primary · Brighton
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St Luke's Primary School0.4 miles
Primary · Brighton
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St John the Baptist Catholic Primary School0.5 miles
Primary · Brighton
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Elm Grove Primary School0.6 miles
Primary · Brighton
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St Mark's CofE Primary School0.7 miles
Primary · Brighton
Other schools in Brighton
Queen's Park Primary School ranks 36th of the 36 ranked primary schools in Brighton.
- Balfour Primary School Primary
- Benfield Primary School Primary
- Bevendean Primary School and Nursery Primary
- Brackenbury Primary School Primary
- Carden Nursery and Primary School Primary
- Carlton Hill Primary School Primary
- City Academy Whitehawk Primary
- Coldean Primary School Primary
- Coombe Road Primary School Primary
- Downs Infant School Primary
- Downs Junior School Primary
- Eastbrook Primary Academy Primary
Common questions
- What year groups does Queen's Park Primary School teach?
- Queen's Park Primary School teaches children aged 4 to 11. It is a primary school in Brighton.
- Who is the headteacher of Queen's Park Primary School?
- The headteacher of Queen's Park Primary School is Ms Emma Gale, as recorded in the Department for Education's register of schools.
- When was Queen's Park Primary School last inspected?
- Ofsted has inspected Queen's Park Primary School, and its latest judgement is set out in the inspection section on this page, with the framework and the date it was made.
- How big is Queen's Park Primary School?
- Queen's Park Primary School has 286 pupils on roll, teaching children aged 4 to 11.
- Is Queen's Park Primary School full?
- Queen's Park Primary School has capacity for 420 pupils and 286 on roll (68%), so it has space against its published capacity. Places are allocated through the local authority's admissions process, so capacity alone does not tell you whether a place is available.
- Is Queen's Park Primary School a faith school?
- No. Queen's Park Primary School has no designated religious character.
- Does Queen's Park Primary School have a nursery?
- No. The schools register records Queen's Park Primary School as having no nursery classes.
- How have Queen's Park Primary School's results changed over recent years?
- Its share of pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths was 37% in 2022/23 and 30% in 2024/25. The year-by-year figures, alongside local and national averages, are charted in the trends section on this page.
- How does Queen's Park Primary School rank locally?
- Queen's Park Primary School ranked 43rd of 43 primary schools in Brighton and Hove for key stage 2 results. Its KS2 result was higher than 7% of England primary schools that published results in 2024/25. Its absence rate was lower than 11% of England schools in 2024/25. Results reflect each cohort as well as the school, so treat rankings as a starting point.
- What is Queen's Park Primary School's absence rate?
- Queen's Park Primary School's overall absence rate is 9.1% in the latest published census, above the England average of 6.2%.
- What are Queen's Park Primary School's exam results?
- Where the Department for Education has published them, Queen's Park Primary School's key stage results are shown in the results section on this page, with the last three years so you can see the trend rather than a single year.
School details come from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Inspection outcomes come from Ofsted, and exam results from the Department for Education's school performance service. This page was last updated on 30 June 2026.