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Schools in Calderdale

111 schools in the Calderdale local authority.

Schools

111

Open schools

Pupils

35,227

2025–26 census

Good or better

94%

89 of 95 graded

Academic Performance

5.0

out of 10 · 106 schools

Ofsted ratings

Outstanding
11 12%
Good
78 82%
Requires improvement
6 6%
Inadequate
0 0%
7 inspected since 2024, no overall grade8 superseded by a report card9 not judged2 in a category of concern
5.0
Academic Performance

Averaged over 106 of 111 schools that can be scored

Pupils

35,227

pupils on roll

Boys 51%49% Girls

Ethnicity

White
72%
Asian
19%
Black
2%
Mixed
5%
Chinese
<1%
Any other group
1%
Unclassified
<1%

Ethnicity from 99 of 111 schools (33,898 pupils). Independent schools report roll and sex only.

Pupil characteristics

Free school meals
28.2%

9,574 of 33,898 pupils · 99 of 111 schools

First language not English
15.3%

5,193 of 33,898 pupils · 99 of 111 schools

Young carers
1.1%

370 of 33,898 pupils · 99 of 111 schools

Schools by phase

Primary
82
Secondary
13
All-through
2
Special
5
PRU
1
Not recorded
8

Top primary schools in Calderdale

The 20 highest-scoring primary schools here on Academic Performance, which combines the Ofsted judgement with DfE attainment.

Top secondary schools in Calderdale

The highest-scoring secondary schools here on Academic Performance, which combines the Ofsted judgement with DfE attainment.

Browse all 111 schools in Calderdale — filter by phase or Ofsted rating.

About schools in Calderdale

How many schools are there in Calderdale?
Calderdale has 111 open schools — 82 primary, 13 secondary, 5 special, teaching 35,227 pupils in total.
How many schools in Calderdale are rated Good or Outstanding?
89 of the 95 schools holding an Ofsted grade — 94% — are rated Good or Outstanding, including 11 rated Outstanding. That share is measured against graded schools, not all 111: a school inspected since September 2024 has no overall grade at all.
What is the average Academic Performance in Calderdale?
5.0 out of 10, averaged across the 106 schools here that can be scored, where 5 is the national average. Academic Performance combines the Ofsted judgement with DfE attainment and is ranked against comparable schools, so it is neither figure on its own.
Why do some Calderdale schools have no Ofsted rating?
16 schools in Calderdale currently hold no overall grade. Ofsted stopped awarding single-word judgements in September 2024 and moved to a report card of separately graded areas, so schools inspected since then have no overall rating whatever the inspection found. Their profiles show the report card instead.
What does Calderdale local authority do?
A local authority is the body responsible for state education in its area — the level most admissions and school-place decisions are made at. Calderdale covers 111 schools and sits in the Yorkshire and The Humber region. It does not run academies or independent schools directly, though it still coordinates admissions for most of them.
How many pupils in Calderdale are eligible for free school meals?
28.2% — 9,574 of 33,898 pupils at the 99 schools that report it. Independent schools file a return with roll and sex only, so they are outside this figure rather than counted as zero.

Part of the Yorkshire and The Humber region.