St Andrew's Church of England (VA) Infant School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 5–7 · 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 🔒
St Andrew's Church of England (VA) Infant School is a primary school in Brighouse, Calderdale for ages 5–7 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 27 June 2023. Calderdale has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.
St Andrew's Church of England (VA) 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 | 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
- Every Reception applicant was offered a place in 2026, though places ran out in 2020, the earlier year with a published outcome.
- For Reception in 2026: 44 first-choice applications for 45 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family ranking it second or lower.
- For Reception in 2026, 9 of the 84 applications (11%) came from families living outside Calderdale, and 7 offers went to them.
- Here 20.5% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 15.8% 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
- Lightcliffe Road, Brighouse, HD6 2HH
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–7
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Calderdale
- Pupils on roll
- 156 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 20.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 24
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 27 June 2023
Strengths
- “Leaders have high ambitions for the pupils of St Andrew’s Church of England (VA) Infant School.”
- “They ensure that all pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), receive a good education.”
- “Leaders’ high expectations of pupils’ behaviour are realised.”
To improve
- “In some subjects, teachers are less clear about the smaller building blocks of knowledge that pupils should be learning in lessons.”
- “Also, on occasions, the focus in lessons is on pupils completing tasks and activities rather than the essential learning that pupils need to remember.”
- “When this happens, pupils are not as secure with what they can remember learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 18 September 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 44 first-preference applications, 45 offers in total, 44 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.
- St Andrew's CofE (VA) Junior School 0.3 mi Outstanding
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary Academy, Brighouse 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Trinity Academy St Chad's 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Cliffe Hill Community Primary School 0.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Longroyde Primary School 0.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Bailiffe Bridge Junior and Infant School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Woodhouse Primary School 1.2 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Lightcliffe C of E Primary School 1.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published