Community school · Primary
Newhaven · BN9 9LX · East Sussex
Ages 2–11
Status: Open
0.4 miles away
OpenPrimaryURN 140385
High Cliff Academy
Academy sponsor led · Newhaven · BN9 9FD
Phase
Primary
Age range
Ages 4–11
Pupils
154
Local authority
East Sussex
Age range
Ages 4–11
05111619
Provision snapshot
Based on official GIAS characteristics
1 / 6
- NurseryNo Nursery Classes
- Sixth formDoes not have a sixth form
- BoardingNo boarders
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed academy sponsor led (primary), Ages 4–11, in Newhaven, East Sussex, 154 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: academy. Free school meals: 37%.
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Open schools within about 3 miles, prioritising the same phase where possible. Distances are approximate from GIAS coordinates.
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Overview
- School type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 140385
Location
- Address
- Southdown Road
- Postcode
- BN9 9FD
- Town
- Newhaven
- County
- East Sussex
- Local authority
- East Sussex
- District
- Lewes
- Constituency
- Lewes
- Urban/rural
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Size & intake
Pupil numbers and free school meals come from the GIAS school census fields. Capacity fill is calculated when both pupils and capacity are published. Census date: 15 Jan 2026.
- Pupils on roll
- 154
- Boys / girls
- 84 / 70
- School capacity
- 210
- Capacity fill
- 154 / 210 (73%)
- Free school meals
- 37%
- FSM pupils
- 57
- Gender
- Mixed
School characteristics
- Nursery provision
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Governance
- Academy trust: STEP ACADEMY TRUST
- Academy trust
- STEP ACADEMY TRUST
- Sponsor
- STEP ACADEMY TRUST
Contact
- Headteacher
- Miss Carla Botting
- Telephone
- 01273041471
Official links
Ofsted
Latest inspection outcomes from Ofsted monthly management information. Report-card grades use the current framework where published; older OEIF grades are shown when that is the latest graded inspection.
Headline
Expected standard
Inspection date
2026-06-09
- Achievement
- Expected standard
- Curriculum and teaching
- Expected standard
- Inclusion
- Expected standard
- Attendance and behaviour
- Expected standard
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Expected standard
- Leadership and governance
- Expected standard
- Safeguarding standards
- Met
Performance
Official school-level results from DfE school and college performance tables. Figures are not rankings — suppressed or unavailable values are omitted.
Key stage 2 (2023/24)
- Expected standard (RWM)
- 53%
- Higher standard (RWM)
- 2%
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 102.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 102.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 107.0