Living in Brighouse with children
Brighouse, Calderdale. What the published figures say about its schools, its homes and daily life, each with its source and date. 33,159 people in 15,160 households; 26.1% of households have dependent children (Census 2021 (ONS, via NOMIS), summed over the town's output areas).
Schools
12 schools: 10 state primary, 2 state secondaryBrighouse on the schools map →Every school in Brighouse, with inspection, league band and the last place offered
State primary schools (10)
| School | Inspection | League rank | Last place offered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bailiffe Bridge Junior and Infant School | School remains Good | Top 8% (6/79) in Calderdale | 1.461 miles (2026) |
| Trinity Academy St Chad's | Good | Top 12% (9/79) in Calderdale | — |
| St John's (CofE) Primary Academy, Clifton | Good | Top 16% (12/79) in Calderdale | — |
| Woodhouse Primary School | Good | Top 25% (19/79) in Calderdale | — |
| St Andrew's CofE (VA) Junior School | Outstanding | Top 37% (29/79) in Calderdale | — |
| St Joseph's Catholic Primary Academy, Brighouse | School remains Good | Top 47% (37/79) in Calderdale | — |
| Carr Green Primary School | Good | (42/79) in Calderdale | — |
| Longroyde Primary School | Good | (53/79) in Calderdale | — |
| Field Lane Primary School | Good | (77/79) in Calderdale | — |
| St Andrew's Church of England (VA) Infant School | Good | — | — |
State secondary schools (2)
| School | Inspection | League rank | Last place offered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rastrick High School | School remains Good (Improving) | Top 31% (4/13) in Calderdale | — |
| Brighouse High School | Ofsted report card | (10/13) in Calderdale | — |
Rank: the school's place among its council's schools of the same phase, from three years of DfE results (kinplace's league table, how it is worked out); schools with hidden or no results get none. Inspections: Ofsted and ISI. Last place offered: the council's offer-day figures. School register: DfE Get Information about Schools, updated 17 October 2026.
Homes and prices
Typical sale, last 12 months (Land Registry)The middle sale of each type, September 2025 to August 2026: half sold for more, half for less (80 detached, 179 semi-detached, 193 terraced, 23 flat or maisonette sales). Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, standard sales inside the ONS built-up area outline of Brighouse. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Look up a home in Brighouse →Getting around
Stops and stations (NaPTAN), and broadband (Ofcom)Source: DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes). Straight-line distances.
Gigabit broadband can be ordered at 96% of premises, and superfast (30 Mbit/s) at 99%, on average across the 690 postcodes in HD6. Check the postcode you are looking at: it can differ street by street.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, July 2025, fixed broadband coverage by postcode (an average of postcodes, not of homes).
Safety and environment
The town centre; addresses varyChildcare
Ofsted early years register; published pricesWhat Ofsted found: 4 outstanding; 5 good, or expected standard. A typical nursery place in this region costs about £6.17 an hour for a two-year-old.
All of them: 9 in Calderdale.
Sources: Ofsted, Childcare providers and inspections; each nursery's own fees page, read by 16 October 2026; Coram Family and Childcare, Childcare Survey 2026: average nursery price for 50 hours a week after the working-parent entitlement (paying for 20 hours), by region.
Childcare costs near you →Key dates, Calderdale
The next dates for families applyingApplication deadlines and offer days: Calderdale.
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