St Joseph's Catholic Primary Academy, Brighouse
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Brighouse, Calderdale
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Not published
From Calderdale Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2015–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Joseph's Catholic Primary Academy, Brighouse is a primary school in Brighouse, Calderdale for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 21 February 2024. Calderdale has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.
St Joseph's Catholic Primary Academy, Brighouse 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 | Not published |
| 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
- The Reception 2023 last distance was nearer than in 2022 and 2019, and the 2023 figure was the shortest of the 4 years with a published distance.
- In 2024/25, 65% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), while 4% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- There are 27.6 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 22.4 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Calderdale.
- Of its pupils, 15.8% are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 27.8% 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
- Finkil Street, Hove Edge, Brighouse, HD6 2NT
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Calderdale
- Pupils on roll
- 196 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 15.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 27.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 21 February 2024
Strengths
- “St Joseph’s Catholic Primary Academy is a warm and welcoming school.”
- “The school motto ‘Love, learn and live in Christ!’ is central to the life of the school.”
- “Pupils are polite and respectful.”
To improve
- “However, some pupils do not always present their work well.”
- “However, for these pupils, the support that they receive for writing does not match the support that they receive for reading.”
- “However, these strategies are not included in enough detail in the current behaviour policies.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 April 2024 (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) | 65% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Calderdale.
- Trinity Academy St Chad's 0.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Cliffe Hill Community Primary School 0.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Andrew's Church of England (VA) Infant School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Lightcliffe C of E Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Andrew's CofE (VA) Junior School 0.8 mi Outstanding
- Bailiffe Bridge Junior and Infant School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Longroyde Primary School 1.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Withinfields Primary School 1.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published