Schools in East Grinstead
East Grinstead's 12 schools sit within West Sussex County Council's coordinated admissions scheme, with 9 primaries and 2 secondaries — Imberhorne School and Sackville School — serving this High Weald market town straddling the Surrey and Kent borders. West Sussex uses straight-line distance after sibling priority for community schools. Faith schools account for 12 of the 12 in the town, with Church of England, Catholic and other designations all represented.
Secondary provision is split between Imberhorne School and Sackville School, with Imberhorne the larger and historically the more oversubscribed. Both draw from overlapping geographic catchments across East Grinstead and surrounding villages including Ashurst Wood, Forest Row and Lingfield (Surrey). West Sussex's admissions criteria for community secondaries are distance-based, but both schools hold partial academy or trust relationships that require families to check individual criteria.
Five of the 12 schools are academies. Families in the Ashurst Wood and Dormansland outliers should verify whether West Sussex or Surrey LA allocations apply to their secondary application. Historical furthest-distance data for East Grinstead schools is available through catchment.school; the town's housing growth in recent years has compressed catchment radii at some primaries.
School demand in East Grinstead
Across the 11 schools in East Grinstead with published capacity data, the average fill rate is 90%. None are currently over capacity, but catchment distance still applies in any year a school is oversubscribed.
3 schools in East Grinstead have a religious character, so faith criteria sit alongside catchment distance in their admissions policies.
5 of the schools in East Grinstead are academies that set their own admissions criteria independently of West Sussex, so check each school's policy directly rather than assuming the council default applies.
4 of the schools in East Grinstead have a current Ofsted rating, of which 4 are rated Good or Outstanding. Demand and catchment distance tend to be tightest at the highest-rated schools.
Primary Schools in East Grinstead (9)
Ashurst Wood Primary School
Primary · Community school
East Grinstead · RH19 3QW
Estcots Primary School
Primary · Community school
East Grinstead · RH19 3TY
The Meads Primary School
Primary · Community school
East Grinstead · RH19 4DD
St Peter's Catholic Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school
East Grinstead · RH19 1JB
Halsford Park Primary School
Primary · Academy converter
East Grinstead · RH19 1LR
Baldwins Hill Primary School, East Grinstead
Primary · Academy converter
East Grinstead · RH19 2AP
Blackwell Primary School
Primary · Academy sponsor led
East Grinstead · RH19 3JL
Felbridge Primary School
Primary · Academy converter
East Grinstead · RH19 2NT
St Mary's Church of England Primary School, East Grinstead
Primary · Academy converter
East Grinstead · RH19 2DS
Secondary Schools in East Grinstead (2)
Other Schools in East Grinstead (1)
Catchment area boundaries for schools in East Grinstead are set by West Sussex and updated each year. The "last distance offered", how far the furthest successful applicant lived, changes annually based on the number of applications received.