Fairlight County Secondary School, Brighton

<p>For minutes of the Brighton School Board, 1876-1903 see R/E 2/1/8-30; for minutes of the governing body, 1897-1937 see E/MA/18/1-6; for title deeds of the site of the school, 1848-1875 see R/C 4/271-273; for statistics file, 1929-1968 see R/E 2/43/15; for plans of polling stations at the school, 1889 see DB/D 46/469-470; for plans, 1929 see DB/D 46/1035; for plan of alterations, 1930 see DB/D 46/1055</p>

From 27 January 1873 children up to 7 years of age, under the Headmistress Miss H Weekley, were educated in a room in the Lewes Road Congregational Chapel. The site for the new school at Fairlight Place was compulsorily purchased after fierce local opposition and the new school opened for the infants' and girls' departments on 17 January 1876; the boys' department moved in on 27 March 1876. The school was also known as the Lewes Road Schools

The school was enlarged in 1883 and 1901, and rebuilt in 1932

In 1928 the school was reorganised: infants', junior mixed and girls' departments were formed, the boys' department was closed and the pupils moved to the Central Schools (E/SC/16)

The girls' department, which from September 1947 was known as Fairlight County Secondary School, was closed in 1962 and amalgamated with Elm Grove County Secondary School (E/SC/20)

The junior mixed became Fairlight Middle School and then Fairlight Junior School (E/SC/165). In July 1992 it was closed and merged with Fairlight Infants' School to form Fairlight Primary School (E/SC/221)