Patcham High School is one of nine

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, located in the village of Patcham. It has around 1,000 pupils. The current head teacher is John McKee. The school was founded on 7 July 1990, when Margaret Hardy school for girls and Patcham Fawcett school for boys were combined. The school is on Ladies Mile Road in Patcham. Margaret Hardy and Patcham Fawcett were the last two single sex schools in Brighton, and Patcham High School now serves the north of Brighton, situated next to the

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. The new logo is that of the

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, an Indian War Memorial that can be seen from Patcham. The logo was changed, along with the uniform, in 2006. In 2014, Patcham High School won The Argus school of the year award. Patcham High School has undergone marked improvement in teaching standards latterly. After being assigned ‘inadequate’ in its 2006

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inspection, it achieved ‘satisfactory’ status in 2007 and 2010. In its two most recent inspections, 2013 and 2017, the school was awarded a ‘good’ rating by Ofsted. Construction of an

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pitch on the school grounds commenced in March 2021 and was completed in June 2021.

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