Bailiffe Bridge Junior and Infant School

Community school·Primary school Brighouse, Calderdale·HD6 4DY
Composite score
78.4
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#852
National rank
#75
In Yorkshire and The Humber
#2
In Calderdale
Top 6%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
83%
% achieving higher RWM
21%
Reading average scaled score
109.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
111.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
91%
32 first choices, 29 places
First choices per place
1.10
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
78
any preference, for 29 places
Applications from another council area
27%
First preferences per place, last five years▶ 0.00
00.511.5
1 per place
1.2320220.9520230.8720241.1020251.102026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Calderdale does not publish how far from the school the last child offered a Reception place lived, so there is no cut-off distance to show for Bailiffe Bridge Junior and Infant School. Ask the school or the council how places were allocated this year.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
4–11
Pupils on roll
182
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
13.2%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
3.3%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
7.1%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
1.6%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
3.6%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
5.2%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
28.4
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,477
Typical primary: £6,960

“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means

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Location

Bailiffe Bridge Junior and Infant School at a glance

Located in Brighouse, Calderdale, Bailiffe Bridge Junior and Infant School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 182 pupils aged 4 to 11. 83% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, well above the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has risen by 2.0 percentage points year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it among the top 6% of primary schools in England.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 109 in reading and 111 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 21% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Bailiffe Bridge Junior and Infant School is oversubscribed: about 9 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 32 first choices for 29 places. Overall pupil absence was 3.6%. There are about 28.4 pupils per teacher. Bailiffe Bridge Junior and Infant School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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