Lightcliffe Academy

Ofsted

–No overall grade (2024) — Inspected 2024–2025 — no overall grade under the interim framework

This school has not yet been inspected under the report-card system introduced in November 2025. When it is, this section will show a grade for each area — Ofsted says the new grades do not map onto the old ones, so we do not predict them.

Inspected 24 September 2024, published 4 December 2024. Read the full Ofsted report

England has three coexisting inspection systems — how we translate them into one signal.

Exam results

Progress 8 is not published nationally for 2024/25 and 2025/26 while KS2 baselines are missing (no SATs in 2020/21). It returns from 2026/27.

“Not published (small cohort)” means the DfE suppressed the figure to protect small cohorts — it is not a zero.

Will my child get in?

Usually has places available — 0.78 first-choice applications per place (Sept 2026 entry)

First-choice demand varies year to year, and the school’s admission criteria — not demand — decide who is offered a place. Use this as a rough signal, never a prediction.

Nearby alternatives

• ▲Brighouse High School 1.1 km · Most areas: Expected standard (2026)
• ▲Rastrick High School 2.9 km · Good — confirmed 2023 · previous system
• –Whitcliffe Mount, A Share Academy 4 km · Standards maintained (2025)
• –Park Lane Academy 4.7 km · No overall grade (2025)
• –Buttershaw Business & Enterprise College Academy 4.8 km · No overall grade (2025)
• ▲All Saints Catholic College 5.1 km · Good (2022) · previous system

Straight-line distance — not travel time, and not a catchment. Same phase, open schools only.