Brighouse High School
Ofsted: Expected
Score
D50
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Location
- Brighouse, HD6 2NY
- Distance
- 1.9km away
Rastrick High School
Field Top Road, Rastrick, Brighouse, HD6 3XB
Local ranking4th of 13 secondary schools in Calderdale
Ofsted: GoodUpdated— score data refreshed 15 October 2026
Secondary
Phase
1750
Capacity
11-16
Age range
Mixed
Gender
Latest data: 2026 GCSEs · Ofsted inspection 11 October 2023. Figures last updated .
Year:
GCSE Results
2025-26- Average Attainment 8
- 50.9 nat46.2
- Grade 5+ Eng & Maths
- 56.7% nat46.3%
- Grade 4+ Eng & Maths
- 75.4% nat64.8%
- Cohort Size
- 353
Destinations
After GCSE 2024-25
- Sustained education/employment
- 94.0%
- Continued in education
- 87.0%
- Apprenticeships
- 5.0%
- Employment
- 1.0%
- Not sustained
- 5.0%
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 1780
- Boys
- 871 (49%)
- Girls
- 903 (51%)
- Capacity
- 1750 (101% full)
- SEND
- 12.8%
- FSM Eligible
- 23.9%
- EAL
- 4.4%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 3.1%
- SEN Support
- 9.7%
- Pupil:Teacher Ratio
- 17.9:1
- Teachers (FTE)
- 99.5
- Budget per Pupil
- £6,107/yr
*Financial data not available for 2025-26 — showing 2024-25
Attendance & Absence
2024-25*Data not available for 2025-26 — showing latest available results
- Overall Absence Rate
- 7.7% nat6.2%
- Persistent Absence
- 20.6% nat15.8%
Persistent absence: pupils missing 10%+ of sessions.
School Information
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Nursery
- Not applicable
- Sixth Form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarders
- No boarders
- Admissions
- Non-selective
Pupil Ethnicity
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- White British: 69.0%
- Asian Pakistani: 10.3%
- Mixed White & Black Caribbean: 4.5%
- Asian Indian: 2.8%
- Mixed Other: 2.3%
- White Other: 2.1%
- Mixed White & Asian: 2.0%
- Asian Other: 1.5%
69.0%
White British
10.3%
Asian Pakistani
4.5%
Mixed White & Black Caribbean
Historical Trends
GCSE Performance
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Contact & Location
Field Top Road
Brighouse, Yorkshire and the Humber
Administrative
- URN
- 137444
- UKPRN
- 10035142
- Establishment No.
- 5402
- Trust
- POLARIS MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
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