School admissions in Brighouse
How heavily each school was applied to for September 2026 entry, from the applications and offers every admissions authority reports to the DfE. 9 of these schools also have a published admissions cutoff distance. Sorted by first preferences per place. We don't invent rankings: the order is arithmetic on a published figure, not a view about which school is better.
Brighouse in figures
For Reception places in September 2026, families named the 9 schools in Brighouse first 248 times for 251 places: 0.99 first choices per place, against 1.00 across the Calderdale authority's 79 schools. One of the 9 had more first choices than places. For 2026 entry, one school here gave its last places on distance: Bailiffe Bridge Junior and Infant School, to 1.46 miles.
Totals for the schools listed on this page. Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE; last-offer distances as the council published them.
Reception places, September 2026
9 schools. 1 received more first preferences than they had places.
| School | First preferences per place | Places | Cutoff distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bailiffe Bridge Junior and Infant School | 1.10 | 29 | 1.461 miles |
| Carr Green Primary School | 1.00 | 31 | 0.586 miles |
| Field Lane Primary School | 1.00 | 2 | not published |
| Longroyde Primary School | 1.00 | 39 | not published |
| St Joseph's Catholic Primary Academy, Brighouse | 1.00 | 18 | 0.304 miles |
| Woodhouse Primary School | 0.98 | 52 | 1.366 miles |
| St Andrew's Church of England (VA) Infant School | 0.98 | 45 | 1.095 miles |
| Trinity Academy St Chad's | 0.93 | 15 | 0.469 miles |
| St John's (CofE) Primary Academy, Clifton | 0.85 | 20 | 2.022 miles |
First preferences per place is the number of families naming the school first, divided by its published admission number. Above 1.00 means more first choices than places. It is not a ranking and not a measure of quality: a popular school can be easy to get into and a quiet one hard, because places are allocated by each school's own criteria, siblings and faith and banding first, with distance often the last tie-breaker. Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE.