Beech Hill School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 2–11 · Halifax, 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 🔒
Beech Hill School is a primary school in Halifax, Calderdale for ages 2–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 5 February 2025. Calderdale has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.
Beech Hill 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, 62% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 3% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- Every applicant for Reception 2026 was offered a place, as at 63 of the 77 other Calderdale primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Reception 2026 drew 71 first-choice applications for 73 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place and 2 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- Among pupils, 34.2% are eligible for free school meals, and there are 21.5 pupils per teacher, against middle figures of 39.9% and 24.3 across the 8 nearest Calderdale primary schools.
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
- Mount Pleasant Avenue, Halifax, HX1 5TN
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Calderdale
- Pupils on roll
- 571 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 34.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 5 February 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy attending this friendly and welcoming school.”
- “They are cared for by adults and friends alike.”
- “As a result, pupils feel very safe in the school.”
To improve
- “However, in some subjects, pupils cannot draw on prior learning as well as they could.”
- “The school is still refining and embedding the strategy to help pupils remember their learning over the longer term.”
- “However, this is not as well embedded in some subjects as it is in others.”
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) | 62% | 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: 71 first-preference applications, 73 offers in total, 71 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 Augustine's CofE School 0.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Lee Mount Academy 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary Academy 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Mary's Catholic Primary Academy 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Trinity Academy Akroydon 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Mount Pellon Primary Academy 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Parkinson Lane Community Primary School 0.8 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Savile Park Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published