Woodhouse Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Brighouse, Calderdale
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Calderdale Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2015–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Woodhouse Primary School is a primary school in Brighouse, Calderdale for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 12 February 2025. Calderdale has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.
Woodhouse Primary 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 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| 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
- In 2024/25, 74% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 9% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- Every applicant for Reception 2026 was offered a place, whereas places ran out in all 9 earlier years with a published outcome.
- Of the 96 applications for Reception 2026, 34 (35%) came from families living outside Calderdale, and 21 offers went to them.
- Free school meal eligibility is 8.9% of pupils, against a middle figure of 20.5% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Calderdale.
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
- Daisy Road, Brighouse, HD6 3SX
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Calderdale
- Pupils on roll
- 415 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 8.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 24.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 12 February 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils learn to ‘be safe, be caring and be bold’ at this welcoming school.”
- “The school has high expectations for pupils.”
- “Pupils enjoy learning and achieve very highly in national tests at the end of key stage 2.”
To improve
- “The school is currently working on the development of some wider curriculum subjects.”
- “However, some wider curriculum subjects are still being developed.”
- “In some cases, the essential knowledge that pupils need to learn in these subjects is not precisely identified.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 March 2025 (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) | 74% | 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: 51 first-preference applications, 52 offers in total, 51 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.
- Longroyde Primary School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Carr Green Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- St Andrew's CofE (VA) Junior School 0.9 mi Outstanding
- St John's (CofE) Primary Academy, Clifton 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Field Lane Primary School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- St Andrew's Church of England (VA) Infant School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary Academy, Brighouse 1.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Old Earth Primary School 1.8 mi School remains Outstanding Last distance published