About
Choosing a school, or a house in the right catchment, means comparing what is actually near you. The trouble is that the information is scattered: the schools register lists one thing, Ofsted's inspection data another, and you end up with thirty browser tabs open, copying facts into a spreadsheet, trying to line them up. School Choice Report exists to do that assembly for you.
It is an independent tool. You give it a postcode and a phase, and it turns the official, public school data into a single comparison: every state school near you, ranked by distance, each with its latest Ofsted rating and the date behind it, plus the facts that shape a shortlist, faith character, age range, size and sixth form. It is built for two moments in particular: a family choosing a primary or secondary place, and anyone weighing up a house move where the schools nearby are part of the decision.
We would rather you trust the report because it is straight with you. An Ofsted grade is a judgement from a particular few days, sometimes years old, and since September 2024 many schools no longer have a single overall grade at all. So we always show the date, we show the latest shorter check where there is one, and we say plainly that a rating is a starting point, not the whole story. The report is there to build a shortlist and prompt the right visits, not to replace them, and whether you get a place depends on catchment and admission criteria, not distance alone.
School Choice Report is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by Ofsted or the Department for Education. It gathers their published data, and Postcodes.io's location lookup, into one comparison. The word "Ofsted" is used only to describe whose inspection data a rating comes from.
To see exactly where each figure comes from, read the sources and the methodology.
