Brighouse High School
Academy converter · sixth form · 1,317 pupils
81% stayed in education · Attainment 8 40.0
Academy sponsor led
Trinity Academy Halifax
- Pupils on roll
- 1,624of 1,650 places
- Free school meals
- 37.3%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 302
- Ofsted
- Outstanding, 26 September 2023Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Holy Trinity CofE Senior School (URN 107577, until 1 September 2010).
What the data says
Trinity Academy Halifax has no sixth form. Of the 294 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 6% moved to a sixth form college, 45% to a further education college and 6% started an apprenticeship.
Statistics is unusually popular at GCSE: 96% of the year group took it, against 5% of pupils across England.
GCSE results in 2025 were in line with the national picture: Attainment 8 of 44.5 against 46.1 across England and 48.7 in Calderdale, with 41% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).
As an 11–16 school, Trinity Academy Halifax is judged on where pupils go at 16 rather than on A level results.
Where pupils went after Year 11
Destinations of the 2023 Year 11 leavers, measured the following year: the share in a sustained place for at least two terms. Compared with all state-funded schools in Calderdale and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | Trinity Academy Halifax | Calderdale | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 294 | 2,826 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 90% | 92% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 81% | 85% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 30% | 30% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 6% | 19% | 13% |
| — further education college | 45% | 34% | 37% |
| — other education | 0% | 2% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 6% | 5% | 3% |
| Employment | 2% | 2% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 8% | 6% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 2% | 2% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | Trinity Academy Halifax | Calderdale | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 44.5 | 48.7 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 41% | 51% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 66% | 70% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 78% | 33% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 4.11 | 4.20 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 39% | 27% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 37.7 | 38.3 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 48.8 | 52.6 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 7% | 15% | 19% |
Progress 8 is not available for 2025 and 2026: these cohorts had no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021, so there is no baseline. Attainment 8 shows results without taking pupils’ starting points into account.
Subjects taken at GCSE
Entries in 2025 as a share of the Year 11 cohort, and the share of entries graded 7–9 and 4–9, compared with all entries in England.
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England | Grades 7–9 | England | Grades 4–9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mathematics | 301 | 100% | 88% | 18% | 22% | 71% |
| English Language | 301 | 100% | 89% | 9% | 20% | 60% |
| English Literature | 299 | 99% | 86% | 9% | 21% | 72% |
| Statistics | 289 | 96% | 5% | 6% | 20% | 65% |
| Combined Science | 230 | 76% | 65% | 7% | 9% | 59% |
| History | 194 | 64% | 41% | 25% | 26% | 64% |
| French | 137 | 45% | 18% | 7% | 29% | 52% |
| Spanish | 98 | 32% | 19% | 4% | 27% | 43% |
| Design and Technology | 78 | 26% | 11% | 3% | 23% | 38% |
| Geography | 72 | 24% | 41% | 17% | 25% | 57% |
| Physics | 63 | 21% | 23% | 29% | 46% | 79% |
| Business Studies | 61 | 20% | 18% | 2% | 20% | 48% |
| Biology | 60 | 20% | 23% | 18% | 45% | 82% |
| Chemistry | 60 | 20% | 23% | 35% | 47% | 82% |
| Photography | 54 | 18% | 6% | 26% | 19% | 91% |
| Art and Design | 44 | 15% | 7% | 11% | 24% | 82% |
| Religious Studies | 36 | 12% | 31% | 11% | 32% | 61% |
| Computer Science | 24 | 8% | 13% | 29% | 30% | 79% |
| Music | 18 | 6% | 5% | 6% | 33% | 61% |
| Polish | 12 | 4% | 1% | 83% | 84% | 92% |
| Italian | 1 | 0% | 0% | — | 53% | — |
| Fine Art | 1 | 0% | 9% | — | 28% | — |
| German | 1 | 0% | 5% | — | 33% | — |
| Arabic | 1 | 0% | 1% | — | 47% | — |
Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Studies | 66 | — | — |
| Sports Studies | 53 | — | — |
| Computer Appreciation / Introduction | 52 | — | — |
| Speech and Drama | 49 | — | — |
| Hospitality / Catering Studies | 48 | — | — |
| Small Business Management | 6 | — | — |
| Music performance: Group | 1 | — | — |
Where Trinity Academy Halifax is
Other secondary schools in Calderdale are shown for comparison; darker blue means more Year 11 leavers stayed in education. The last distance at which this school offered places is not yet on file — it comes from Calderdale’s allocation statistics.
Other secondary schools in Calderdale
Lightcliffe Academy
Academy sponsor led · 788 pupils
82% stayed in education · Attainment 8 38.5
Park Lane Academy
Academy sponsor led · 481 pupils
78% stayed in education · Attainment 8 40.9
Rastrick High School
Academy converter · 1,774 pupils
87% stayed in education · Attainment 8 49.9
Ryburn Valley High School
Academy converter · sixth form · 1,589 pupils
80% stayed in education · Attainment 8 48.7
The Calder Learning Trust
Academy converter · 1,250 pupils
83% stayed in education · Attainment 8 48.8
Sources: Department for Education school and college performance tables 2024/2025 (Key Stage 4 and 16–18 results, subject entries, destination measures for 2023 leavers); Get Information About Schools register as at 19 September 2026; Ofsted management information as at 31 August 2026. Small numbers are suppressed by DfE and shown as “—”. How to read these figures.