Bailiffe Bridge Junior and Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Brighouse, Calderdale
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.461 miles
Published by Calderdale Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2015–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Bailiffe Bridge Junior and Infant School is a primary school in Brighouse, Calderdale for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 5 May 2023. Calderdale has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.
Bailiffe Bridge Junior and Infant School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Reception 2026 | 1.461 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
And 4 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Reception 2026 the last child offered a place lived 1.461 miles away, 3rd longest of the 12 Calderdale primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- That 2026 distance was about the same as in 2025 and nearer than in 2015, though it swung sharply between some years, most from 2022 to 2025.
- In 2026 there were 32 first-choice applications for 29 Reception offers; 29 offers went to first-choice families, and 3 first-choice families (9%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 83% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%) and 21% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Calderdale schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Victoria Road, Bailiff Bridge, Brighouse, HD6 4DY
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Calderdale
- Pupils on roll
- 183 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 13.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 25.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 5 May 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy attending this welcoming school.”
- “Staff know pupils very well and have high expectations of them.”
- “On the playground, pupils are kind and respectful to one another.”
To improve
- “However, opportunities to help pupils to build on this knowledge, by making links between subjects, are sometimes missed.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 6 July 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 83% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 32 first-preference applications, 29 offers in total, 29 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Calderdale.
- Cliffe Hill Community Primary School 0.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Lightcliffe C of E Primary School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary Academy, Brighouse 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Andrew's Church of England (VA) Infant School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Trinity Academy St Chad's 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- St Andrew's CofE (VA) Junior School 1.3 mi Outstanding
- St John's (CofE) Primary Academy, Clifton 1.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Longroyde Primary School 1.9 mi Not judged Last distance published