Will your address get your child into that school?
Real cut-off distances from official council data. Honest classification of every school type. The actual numbers that determined who got in last year — not heatmaps, not probabilities, not estimates.
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The most important question isn't wherethe school is. It's how it admits.
Every school is one of five types. Each operates under fundamentally different rules. Knowing which type a school is changes the entire decision.
Council-controlled
Defined priority area. Inside it, you get advantage. Distance is the tiebreaker within the zone.
Distance-only
No fixed zone. Admission ranked purely by straight-line distance. Cut-off shrinks or grows yearly.
Faith school
Religious criteria dominate. Distance is a secondary factor. Supplementary form usually required.
Selective grammar
Test-based admission. Distance often irrelevant beyond a tiebreaker among qualifying candidates.
Independent
Fee-paying. Own admissions process, often including assessment days and interviews.
- Extract last-distance-offered from each borough's annual allocation PDFs
- Classify every school by admissions type with the criteria that matter
- Show 3-year trends so you understand catchment direction
- Cite every data point with its source document and date
- Predict admission outcomes — we show history, you make the decision
- Rank schools by quality — Ofsted ratings are linked, not editorialised
- Recommend property purchases — we are not estate agents
- Hide what we don't know — uncertainty is surfaced, not buried