Hailsham Academy is a split site, all through school serving 1,500 students in the secondary phase and approximately 300 students in the primary phase. We are situated close to Eastbourne and the south coast, just minutes from a National Park and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Our staff travel to Hailsham from a variety of locations within the southeast, including Brighton, Uckfield, Seaford, Eastbourne, Bexhill and Tunbridge Wells.​

In the early part of 2018, whilst under Hailsham Community College Academy Trust, we were approached by the Local Authority to provide a new Primary and Pre-school provision within the town. In September 2019 we opened a brand-new school approximately a mile from the Secondary site, thus extending the designation of the Trust to a 2-19 all-through school. Since our last Ofsted inspection in March 2023, there have been some important changes that have taken place across the secondary phase of the school, including changes to our leadership structure, a revised pastoral structure to ensure we are providing effective support to our students, and a renewed focus on the quality of education and curriculum implementation.​​

We are proud and delighted to have joined MARK Education Trust in September 2025. Like our partner schools, we are proud to retain our unique identity while benefiting from the collective strength and collaboration of the trust.

Being part of MARK Education Trust brings many advantages for our school community. It enables us to share best practice, build on excellent teaching and learning, and provide even greater support for our students. The partnership allows us to strengthen our leadership capacity, create efficiencies, and further enhance the quality of education across our academy. ​

Vision, culture and expectations​

Our vision is to provide the best possible education for all of our students and to be an exceptional and high-performing school, locally and nationally. We do this by relentlessly sustaining our culture that is highly aspirational and ambitious for excellence in all we do.​

Our strategy for the future is rightly ambitious. We are uncompromising in our ambition, pursuing excellence at every level. We have a rigorous focus on consistent improvement and work meticulously to secure our culture of unapologetically high standards. Underpinning this is our shared belief in, and ambition for, the students of Hailsham Academy, and the experienced, loyal, highly skilled and highly effective team of staff who teach them. ​

We ensure that teaching and learning inspires and challenges every student, enabling all to make excellent progress, regardless of their starting point. We offer a broad, knowledge rich curriculum within our disciplined standards agenda. Our environment is consistently calm, safe and orderly, enabling teachers to teach and students to learn. ​

We know that choosing a place to work in is one of the most important decisions you will make for yourself and your family, so we thank you for your interest in our Academy and hope the pack enables you to understand a little more about who we are and what we stand for as a school within MARK Education Trust. ​

We encourage you to visit us during this exciting new phase for our school.​