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The Regis School

SecondaryAges 11–19AcademySixth form

Bognor Regis, PO21 5LH · West Sussex local authority

Bognor Regis’s School Grade C better than 29% of towns in England

Its letter
73%
of England’s secondaries have lower GCSE results
Getting in
266/266
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 84%)
How full
1,679 pupils
93% of its 1,800 places
Free school meals
26%
26 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (30)
The gist

What stands out about The Regis School

  • Its own letter, B+: GCSE results better than 73% of England’s secondary schools
  • 59% get grade 5 or above in English and maths, 11 points above England’s schools
  • Ofsted: Good, March 2023 (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (266 of 266)
  • Progress 8 of +0.25 in 2023/24, the last year DfE published it: pupils did better at GCSE than pupils nationally with the same results at 11
  • Homes in its postcode sector (PO21 5) sold for a median £308,000; Bognor Regis’s is £319,250

Results

DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 292 pupils

Each bar is a group of England’s 3,224 graded secondary schools. The schools The Regis beats are shaded green.

Attainment 8 48.9

Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 64% of schools · West Sussex avg 47.2

20304050607080England avg 47.3The Regis 48.9

Grade 5+ in English and maths 59%

A strong pass · higher than 79% of schools · West Sussex avg 47%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 47.3%The Regis 59%

Attainment 8, three years

The mark is England’s average that year

2023/24
44.7
2024/25
43.6
2025/26
48.9

Progress 8, 2023/24

−1 behind0 = national+1 ahead

+0.25: above average. How pupils did at GCSE against pupils nationally with the same results at 11. Not published since 2023/24 (no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021).

Disadvantaged pupils, 2025/26

Attainment 8 for the 61 pupils DfE counts as disadvantaged (free school meals in the last 6 years, or looked after) and the rest, beside England’s schools

Disadvantaged
37.2England 38.6
Not disadvantaged
52England 50.6
Grade 4 or above in English and maths73%
England’s schools 66% · West Sussex 68% · a standard pass

England’s figures are of its graded mainstream state schools, each school counted once; grammar schools are included, which is why the right-hand tail is long. Small cohorts are suppressed.

Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at The Regis School?

Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.

266
families put it first for September 2026
273
places offered
100%
of first choices offered a place (England’s secondaries: 84%)
First choices and places, by year of entry
20192020202120222023202420252026
Families who put it firstPlaces offered
Red figures: first choices not offered a place

Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (1), 2020 (9), 2021 (8), 2022 (9), 2023 (6). The council runs the coordinated admissions; each school’s rules (siblings, distance, faith) decide who gets in. DfE doesn’t publish the furthest distance offered, so check the council’s admissions booklet for that. United Learning Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through West Sussex council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for secondary schools nearby, September 2026

Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places

1.27 per place
76% got their first choice
1.19 per place
68% got their first choice
The Regis
0.97 per place
100% got their first choice
0.95 per place
86% got their first choice
0.93 per place
100% got their first choice
0.61 per place
100% got their first choice

Bognor Regis and West Sussex, side by side

2025/26

All 40 graded secondaries in West Sussex. Schools with more pupils on free school meals usually score lower, so a school above the crowd for its free school meals is doing better than its intake predicts. Bognor Regis’s schools are coloured by their letter.

35404550556010%20%30%40%Pupils eligible for free school meals →Attainment 8 →FelphamThe Regis
ABCDElsewhere in West SussexThe Regis
Show as a table
SchoolLetterFree school mealsAttainment 8
Downlands Community SchoolA8%58.3
St Paul's Catholic CollegeA8%57.8
St Oscar Romero Catholic SchoolA13%57.2
Tanbridge House SchoolA−10%56
Bishop Luffa School, ChichesterA11%55.1
Warden Park Secondary AcademyA−12%55
Millais SchoolA13%54.7
St Philip Howard Catholic SchoolA−12%53
Oathall Community CollegeB+15%51.3
Shoreham AcademyA−17%51.3
Weald School, TheB+13%50.8
Davison Church of England High School for Girls, WorthingB+14%50.8
Imberhorne SchoolB+12%49.4
Durrington High SchoolB+20%49.4
The Regis SchoolB+26%48.9
Midhurst Rother CollegeB+14%48.8
Steyning Grammar SchoolB15%48
Sackville SchoolB−14%47.2
Bohunt HorshamB−11%47.2
Hazelwick SchoolC+19%46.3
St Wilfrid's Catholic Comprehensive School, CrawleyB−17%46
Oriel High SchoolB−15%46
Bohunt School WorthingB−20%45.7
The Burgess Hill AcademyB−16%45.7
Worthing High SchoolB−16%45.2
The Sir Robert Woodard AcademyC+20%44.6
The Gatwick SchoolC+21%44
St Andrew's CofE High SchoolC+25%43.7
Chichester Free SchoolB−15%43.5
Felpham Community CollegeC21%43.2
The Forest SchoolC+13%43.1
Ormiston Six Villages AcademyC−24%42.2
Chichester High SchoolC31%42
The Angmering SchoolC22%41.8
Ifield Community CollegeC−33%41.5
Bourne Community CollegeC21%40.5
Holy Trinity CofE Secondary School, CrawleyC−32%40.2
The Academy, SelseyC−27%38.3
Thomas Bennett Community CollegeD36%37.4
The Littlehampton AcademyD26%36.3

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

1,665 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.

SEN support
15.2%England 14%
EHC plan
2.3%England 3.2%
English as an additional language
15.9%England 19%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
25.2%England 29.6%

Girls and boys

Girls 49%Boys 51%
Its letter

The Regis School’s letter

Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.

Secondary: Attainment 8 and grade 5+ English and maths B+Better than 73% of 3,224 schools
How school letters are worked out

Each school’s measure is compared with every graded school in England of the same phase: for primaries, the share of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (DfE’s three-year average); for secondaries, Attainment 8 and the share with grade 5 or above in English and maths, each turned into a z-score against England’s schools and averaged. The letter comes from the share of those schools it beats, in the same bands as every grade on the site. The same method gives U.S. schools their letters, against their own state.

A+ 95+A 85–94A− 75–84B+ 65–74B 55–64B− 45–54C+ 35–44C 25–34C− 15–24D 5–14D− 0–4

Graded: England’s open mainstream state schools with published results (grammar schools included, which select by test). Not graded: special schools, alternative provision, nurseries, 16–19 colleges, UTCs and studio schools, Welsh schools. Ofsted plays no part.

Ofsted

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Ungraded inspection: School remains Good, March 2023.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near The Regis School

For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.

Home prices in PO21 5, the school’s postcode sector

Bognor Regis property prices →
£308,000
median sale, 416 sales in 36 months · Bognor Regis £319,250

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£150K£200K£250K£300K£350K£400K2010201520202025PO21 5Bognor Regis
PO21 5Bognor Regis

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£390K
Semi-detached
£312K
Terraced
£275K
Flat
£184K
PO21 5Bognor Regis

Homes in PO21 5 sell for a little under Bognor Regis’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.

Schools within 1.6 miles

11 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miND−CBCCD−C−DB+C−B+The Regis School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Bognor Regis, PO21 5LH

The Regis School: common questions

Is The Regis School a good school?

By its published results, above average: its GCSE results are better than 73% of England’s secondary schools (its letter is B+), with an Attainment 8 of 48.9 and 59% getting grade 5 or above in English and maths, against 47.3 and 47% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Good, March 2023.

How hard is it to get into The Regis School?

For September 2026, 266 families put The Regis School first and all of them were offered a place; 273 places were offered in all.

What is The Regis School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Good (March 2023).

How much do houses cost near The Regis School?

Homes in its postcode sector, PO21 5, sold for a median £308,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (416 sales).

Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.

A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Bognor Regis’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

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