Brighouse High School (and Sixth Form) is an

academy school An academy school in England is a state-funded school which is directly funded by the Department for Education and independent of local authority control. The terms of the arrangements are set out in individual Academy Funding Agreements. Most ...

Brighouse Brighouse is a town within the metropolitan borough of Calderdale, in West Yorkshire, England. Historically within the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is situated on the River Calder, east of Halifax. It is served by Junction 25 of the M62 m ...

West Yorkshire West Yorkshire is a metropolitan and ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and Humber Region of England. It is an inland and upland county having eastward-draining valleys while taking in the moors of the Pennines. West Yorkshire came into exi ...

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Admissions

It has approximately 1,400 students. The school contains around 1,050 students while the

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contains around 350 students. The school is a Business and Enterprise College, rated 'good' by Ofsted. Brighouse High School's

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is Mr Richard Horsfield. The school also has two Deputy Headteachers. It is situated adjacent to
Halifax Road
' ( A644) in the Hove Edge area of north-west Brighouse.

History

The school began as Brighouse & District Girls' Secondary School on 6 September 1910 then became "Brighouse Girls' Grammar School" in 1944. In 1985, following reorganisation of education in Calderdale, it became Brighouse High School, a mixed comprehensive school. It is now a comprehensive school with Academy status and educates students aged 11–18 years old. The sixth form is separate from the main school in the forme
grammar school
in the town centre on ''Halifax Road'' and recently the new Mulberry Suite has opened, which includes a cafeteria for students and new study rooms.

Academic performance

Notable alumni

Notable former students of Brighouse High School have included actor

Matthew Wolfenden Matthew Wolfenden (born 5 May 1980) is an English actor best known for his role as David Metcalfe in the British soap opera ''Emmerdale''. Early life Wolfenden was born in Norwood Green, West Yorkshire. He was educated at Brighouse High Scho ...

, politician

Holly Lynch Holly Lynch (born 8 October 1986), also known as Holly Walker-Lynch, is a British Labour Party politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Halifax since 2015. She was appointed as the Shadow Minister for Crime Reduction and Courts ...

, footballer Cameron Murray, and comedian Jack Carroll.

References

{{authority control Academies in Calderdale Educational institutions established in 1910 Brighouse Secondary schools in Calderdale 1910 establishments in England