The College places great emphasis on the importance of an education based on core values, relationship-building and community. In an educational world dominated by statistical measures of short-term academic success, the College combines academic rigour with a determination to educate children for the long term.

For many years, Eastbourne College has benefited not only pupils who can afford to pay the full fees but also a cross section of society by:

• giving wider access to education irrespective of the ability to pay for it
• sharing facilities for the educational benefit of other young people
• educating pupils by involving them actively in the education of others, young and old
• working with and for the wider Eastbourne community