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Enter your postcode or school name to see nearby schools and compare official inspection evidence, exam results, attendance and class size. Any Outstanding or Good label is a school’s last historic single-word Ofsted grade from before 10 November 2025; new inspections use report cards. The searchable data covers England and Wales, while Ofsted and DfE performance measures apply to England only.

Admissions are not governed by one universal catchment rule. Some schools use a defined area; others apply distance only after priorities such as looked-after children, siblings or faith criteria. A published last-admitted distance is evidence from a named admissions round, not a guaranteed boundary or prediction.

Ofsted stopped issuing single-word overall grades on 10 November 2025 and now publishes report cards across multiple areas. Any Outstanding, Good, Requires Improvement or Inadequate label here is explicitly presented as the school’s last historic overall grade under the previous framework, with its inspection date. Historic grades are not treated as equivalent to new report-card outcomes.

Fees vary by school, age and boarding arrangement. Schools Near Me publishes per-school fee evidence for 1,357 independent schools so families can compare the actual reviewed figures instead of relying on a national estimate.

KS2 assessments cover Year 6 reading, mathematics and grammar, punctuation and spelling. The main combined measure is the percentage reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and mathematics. We label the academic year beside each published result.

Attainment 8 measures GCSE achievement across eight subjects. Progress 8 compares GCSE outcomes with pupils who had similar KS2 prior attainment. The DfE cannot calculate Progress 8 for the 2024–25 cohort because pandemic assessment cancellations left no KS2 baseline, so we label the current measure unavailable instead of substituting a value.