[1] The name Scholes may have originated from the Scandinavian language meaning 'the temporary huts or sheds'.

The school caters for approximately 213 pupils aged four to eleven.

[2] Scholes was the birthplace of the entertainer Roy Castle, well known as the presenter of the long-running BBC show Record Breakers.

[3] Scholes has a successful cricket team in the Drakes Huddersfield League and a football team, (Scholes FC) who sealed promotion to Division 1 of the Huddersfield & District FA competition as of the end of the 2018–19 season with a game to spare finishing 2nd in Division 2 on 59 points.

Scholes became a civil parish on 31 December 1894 being formed from Wooldale, Fulstone and Hepworth, on 1 April 1938 the parish was abolished and merged with Holmfirth, part also went to form Dunford.