How it works
You give us two things: your postcode, and whether you want primary schools, secondary schools, or all of them. Everything after that is us doing the legwork you would otherwise do one school website at a time, and putting it on a single page you can actually compare.
Type the postcode of the home you live in, or the one you are thinking of moving to, and pick primary, secondary or all. That is the whole form. No account, no long questionnaire. We turn the postcode into a precise location so distances are measured from your doorstep, not the middle of the town.
We take the Department for Education's own schools register and find the open state schools closest to your postcode: their type, age range, size, and whether they are faith-based, single-sex or have a sixth form. These are the schools you could realistically be looking at, ranked by distance so the nearest are at the top.
For every school on the list we attach its most recent Ofsted inspection: the rating, and the year it was given. Where a school has had a shorter check since that graded inspection, we show its outcome too (for example "latest check: remains Good"), so you are reading the current picture and not just an old headline.
The highest-rated school near you is called out, and any school carrying a formal concern is flagged, so the two things most parents want to see first are not buried in the middle of a table.
Checkout is a secure Stripe page. Once you have paid, the report is generated and delivered as a PDF in seconds. It is ranked, compared and explained, and it is yours to keep, print, or forward to whoever is helping you decide.
A rating is a snapshot, not a promise. An Ofsted grade is a judgement made on a particular few days, sometimes years ago. We always show you the date so you can weight it, and in September 2024 Ofsted stopped giving state schools a single overall grade at all, so some schools show a dated grade and some only a recent shorter check. Read it as a starting point, visit on a normal morning, and remember that getting a place depends on catchment and admission criteria, not just how close a school is.
