Brighouse High School
Ofsted: Expected
Score
D49
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Location
- Brighouse, HD6 2NY
- Distance
- 1.1km away
Lightcliffe Academy
Stoney Lane, Lightcliffe, Halifax, HX3 8TL
Local ranking9th of 12 secondary schools in Calderdale
Ofsted: Good
Secondary
Phase
1350
Capacity
11-16
Age range
Mixed
Gender
Ofsted Inspection
Inspected 24 September 2024 — from September 2024 Ofsted no longer gave an overall grade, but each area below was judged in full
Safeguarding standards Met
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour & attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership & management
- Good
Scale: Outstanding · Good · Requires improvement · Inadequate
Year:
GCSE Results
2024-25- Average Attainment 8
- 38.5 nat46.0
- Grade 5+ Eng & Maths
- 25.1% nat45.4%
- Grade 4+ Eng & Maths
- 48.0% nat64.8%
- Entering EBacc
- 20.6% nat40.5%
- EBacc APS
- 3.2 nat4.1
- Cohort Size
- 175
Destinations
After GCSE 2024-25
- Sustained education/employment
- 90.0%
- Continued in education
- 81.0%
- Apprenticeships
- 7.0%
- Employment
- 2.0%
- Not sustained
- 7.0%
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 820
- Boys
- 387 (47%)
- Girls
- 433 (53%)
- Capacity
- 1350 (61% full)
- SEND
- 19.9%
- FSM Eligible
- 32.7%
- EAL
- 5.0%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 1.5%
- SEN Support
- 18.4%
- Pupil:Teacher Ratio
- 17.2:1
- Teachers (FTE)
- 48.2
- Budget per Pupil
- £8,637/yr
Attendance & Absence
2024-25- Overall Absence Rate
- 9.4% nat6.2%
- Persistent Absence
- 30.8% nat15.8%
Persistent absence: pupils missing 10%+ of sessions.
School Information
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Nursery
- Not applicable
- Sixth Form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarders
- No boarders
- Admissions
- Non-selective
Pupil Ethnicity
Loading chart
- White British: 86.5%
- White Other: 2.9%
- Mixed White & Black Caribbean: 1.9%
- Asian Pakistani: 1.9%
- Mixed White & Asian: 1.7%
- Mixed Other: 1.2%
- Black African: 1.2%
- Other: 0.5%
86.5%
White British
2.9%
White Other
1.9%
Mixed White & Black Caribbean
Historical Trends
GCSE Performance
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Ethnicity Over Time
Contact & Location
Stoney Lane
Halifax, Yorkshire and the Humber
Administrative
- URN
- 137036
- UKPRN
- 10034739
- Establishment No.
- 5404
- Trust
- ABBEY MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
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