The North Halifax Grammar School

Term dates

Academies can set their own term dates. Many follow Calderdale council's dates, shown below as a guide, but check with the school, especially for INSET days.

• Term
• Holiday
• INSET day
• Exeat

See Calderdale's full dates

Admissions

Places for Year 7 are applied for through your home council, not the school.

Apply for a secondary school place on GOV.UK

Selective school: Year 7 entry is by an entrance test (the 11+). Registration for the test usually closes in the summer of Year 5.

For the sixth form, apply to the school directly.

How many families applied: Year 7

For September 2026, 240 families put this school as their first choice, and 180 places were offered. 151 of the families who put it first got a place (63%). More families put it first than there were places.

Offers made on national offer day, from the Department for Education. Waiting lists and appeals can change things later. The hardest schools to get into.

11+ entrance test

This school uses The Halifax Grammar Schools admissions test, a shared test used by 1 other schools. Your child sits one test, and the result is shared with every school in the group that you apply to.

How shared 11+ tests work

Ofsted inspection

Latest graded inspection, 8 November 2023. Overall: Good

Quality of education

Good

Behaviour and attitudes

Good

Personal development

Good

Leadership and management

Good

Sixth form

Outstanding

Read the Ofsted reports

From Ofsted's published inspection data (Open Government Licence). Report cards and older grades use different scales, so they can't be compared directly.

About and location

Type

Academy

Phase

Secondary

Ages

11–18

Pupils

1207 (capacity 1250)

Gender

Mixed

Academy trust

THE NORTH HALIFAX GRAMMAR SCHOOL ACADEMY TRUST

Admissions

Selective (entrance test)

Phone

01422244625

Address

Moorbottom Road, Illingworth, Halifax, HX2 9SU

Website

nhgs.co.uk

Official school record, including Ofsted reports