Graded inspection · Sep 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in CalderdaleSelective
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Good |
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About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry379 applications · 125 places offered · 98 named it first
- 2026 3.0; Calderdale median median 2.0
- 2025 2.2; Calderdale median median 2.0
- 2024 2.3; Calderdale median median 2.2
- 2023 1.7; Calderdale median median 2.2
- 2022 2.5; Calderdale median median 2.3
- 2021 1.8; Calderdale median median 2.4
- 2020 2.2; Calderdale median median 2.3
- 2019 2.4; Calderdale median median 2.2
- 2018 2.3; Calderdale median median 2.2
- 2017 2.2; Calderdale median median 2.4
- 2016 1.9; Calderdale median median 2.4
- 2015 2.1; Calderdale median median 2.4
- 2014 2.7; Calderdale median median 2.7
- This school
- Calderdale median
Year 7 applications for September 2027 close 31 October 2026, through your council
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 125 | 379 | 3.0 | 98 | 0.78 |
| Sep 2025 | 159 | 349 | 2.2 | 87 | 0.55 |
| Sep 2024 | 157 | 364 | 2.3 | 97 | 0.62 |
| Sep 2023 | 226 | 379 | 1.7 | 116 | 0.51 |
| Sep 2022 | 151 | 378 | 2.5 | 91 | 0.60 |
| Sep 2021 | 249 | 438 | 1.8 | 115 | 0.46 |
| Sep 2020 | 209 | 459 | 2.2 | 110 | 0.53 |
| Sep 2019 | 229 | 538 | 2.4 | 150 | 0.66 |
| Sep 2018 | 239 | 540 | 2.3 | 187 | 0.78 |
| Sep 2017 | 237 | 529 | 2.2 | 155 | 0.65 |
| Sep 2016 | 266 | 506 | 1.9 | 142 | 0.53 |
| Sep 2015 | 247 | 525 | 2.1 | 169 | 0.68 |
| Sep 2014 | 265 | 727 | 2.7 | 235 | 0.89 |
How did pupils do at GCSE?
DfE KS4 · 2025/26 provisionalEvery year as a table
| Year | Pupils | Attainment 8 | 5+ Eng & maths | 4+ Eng & maths | Progress 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 (prov.) | 198 | 37.3 | 25% | 49% | – |
| 2024/25 | 175 | 38.5 | 25% | 48% | – |
| 2023/24 | 203 | 38.7 | 30% | 55% | −0.37 |
| 2022/23 | 236 | 41.0 | 33% | 57% | −0.43 |
Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 or 2025/26: those pupils had no key stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest secondary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Lightcliffe AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20243.0applications per place 37.3Attainment 8
- 1.1 km · Calderdale20262.3applications per place 43.4Attainment 8
- 2.5 km · Bradford20262.2applications per place 36.0Attainment 8
- 2.9 km · CalderdaleRemains Good · improving20232.0applications per place 50.9Attainment 8
- 4.0 km · KirkleesStandards maintained20252.2applications per place 45.7Attainment 8
- 4.7 km · CalderdaleSerious weaknesses Graded · no overall grade20251.9applications per place 32.3Attainment 8
- 4.8 km · BradfordGraded · no overall grade20251.3applications per place 35.3Attainment 8
- 5.1 km · KirkleesGood20222.4applications per place 47.2Attainment 8
- 5.8 km · BradfordGraded · no overall grade20251.0applications per place 30.1Attainment 8
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 137036 · 381/5404
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,350 pupils · 788 on roll
- Free school meals
- 35.4% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 August 2011
- Replaced
- Hipperholme and Lightcliffe High School and Sports College (URN 107578)
- Address
- Stoney Lane, Lightcliffe, Halifax, HX3 8TL
- Local authority
- Calderdale
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources