Schools in Brighouse
Brighouse has 14 schools within Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council's admissions area, including 10 primaries and two secondaries - Brighouse High School and Rastrick High School. The town sits in the Calder Valley between Halifax and Huddersfield, and both secondary schools are popular with families across the area.
All 7 schools with current Ofsted ratings are Good or Outstanding. Average fill rate is 89% with 4 schools oversubscribed. Five schools are faith-designated, predominantly Church of England. Calderdale coordinates all admissions; secondary catchment boundaries for Brighouse High and Rastrick High are reviewed annually and families on the boundary between the two schools should check the current year's boundary map carefully.
School demand in Brighouse
Across the 13 schools in Brighouse with published capacity data, the average fill rate is 89%. 4 of them are currently at or above their published admission number, and at those schools catchment distance is likely to decide places at the next intake.
5 schools in Brighouse have a religious character, so faith criteria sit alongside catchment distance in their admissions policies.
6 of the schools in Brighouse are academies that set their own admissions criteria independently of Calderdale, so check each school's policy directly rather than assuming the council default applies.
7 of the schools in Brighouse have a current Ofsted rating, of which 7 are rated Good or Outstanding. Demand and catchment distance tend to be tightest at the highest-rated schools.
Primary schools in Brighouse: 2 oversubscribed (10)
Bailiffe Bridge Junior and Infant School
Primary · Community school
Brighouse · HD6 4DY
Carr Green Primary School
Primary · Community school
Brighouse · HD6 3LT
Longroyde Primary School
Primary · Foundation school
Brighouse · HD6 3AS
Woodhouse Primary School
Primary · Community school
Brighouse · HD6 3SX
St Andrew's CofE (VA) Junior School
Primary · Voluntary aided school
Brighouse · HD6 2AN
St Andrew's Church of England (VA) Infant School
Primary · Voluntary aided school
Brighouse · HD6 2HH
St John's (CofE) Primary Academy, Clifton
Primary · Academy converter
Brighouse · HD6 4HP
Field Lane Primary School
Primary · Academy sponsor led
Brighouse · HD6 3JT
Trinity Academy St Chad's
Primary · Academy sponsor led
Brighouse · HD6 2PA
St Joseph's Catholic Primary Academy
Primary · Academy converter
Brighouse · HD6 2NT
Secondary Schools in Brighouse (2)
Other Schools in Brighouse (2)
Catchment area boundaries for schools in Brighouse are set by Calderdale and updated each year. The "last distance offered", how far the furthest successful applicant lived, changes annually based on the number of applications received.