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Search by postcode, town or school name and see what is actually within reach. Filter by phase, Ofsted grade, whether there is a sixth form or a nursery, and how far you are willing to travel. Every result shows the distance from where you searched.

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Put up to four schools next to each other and read the same measures across all of them: Ofsted judgements area by area, SATs, GCSE and A level results, intake, and how full each one is.

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A single year is a cohort, not a trend. Where we hold more than one year, each school page charts how its published measures have moved, with the direction stated in words. Every chart shows the full published range rather than zooming in on the gap, so a one-point drift cannot be drawn as a collapse.

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