Brighouse High School is an outstanding Academy School in Brighouse

Brighouse

Brighouse is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, in West Yorkshire, England. It is situated on the River Calder, east of Halifax in the Pennines. It is served by Junction 25 of the M62 motorway and Brighouse railway station on the Caldervale Line and Huddersfield Line. In the...

, West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire

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, England

England

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It has approximately 1,400 pupils. The school contains around 1,050 pupils while the Sixth form

Sixth form

In the education systems of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, and of Commonwealth West Indian countries such as Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Belize, Jamaica and Malta, the sixth form is the final two years of secondary education, where students, usually sixteen to eighteen years of age,...

 contains around 350 pupils. The school is a Business and Enterprise College

Business and Enterprise College

Business and Enterprise Colleges were introduced in 2002 as part of the Specialist Schools Programme in the United Kingdom. The system enables secondary schools to specialise in certain fields...

, rated 'outstanding' by Ofsted. Brighouse High School's Headteacher is Mrs Liz Cresswell. The school also has three Deputy Headteachers.

It is situated just off Halifax Road (A644) in the Hove Edge area of north-west Brighouse.

Grammar school

It began life as Brighouse & District Girls' Secondary School on 6 September 1910 then became Brighouse Girls' Grammar School in 1944, which closed in 1985.
It is now a comprehensive school with Academy status and educates pupils aged 11-18 years old.
The sixth form is separate from the main school in the former grammar school in the town centre on Halifax Road and recently the new Mulberry Suite has opened, giving pupils access to a cafeteria and several new and well equipped study rooms.

Academic performance

In 2009, with a CVA of 1023, the Brighouse High Sixth Form College was ranked within the top 25% of Sixth Form centres in the country. It gets GCSE results well above the National average and A level results have been on the rise in the last three years.

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