The school is currently in the top 60 schools for GCSE results in England and the joint best school in East Sussex for GCSE results.
This year the boarding community includes students from Hong Kong and mainland China, Russia, Germany and France. In the last two years all the EFL students leaving the school at the end of Year 13 went to the universities of their choice, to study, for example, Medicine, Architecture and Computer Science in Hong Kong, London and Cambridge.