Schools near any UK address

Primary, secondary, sixth-form and all-through schools within walking and driving distance, plus the thing nobody puts on a brochure: which one your child can actually attend.

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25 primary, 6 secondary

schools within 5km of the median property checked.

Plenty to choose from on paper. The point is what you can actually access. Around 66.8% of the properties checked on Move Insights have at least one secondary school within 2km, but proximity is only one of several admissions tiebreakers, and not the most important one for most schools.

Sources: Department for Education and Welsh Government, refreshed 1 May 2026.

Distance does not equal catchment

The single most important point on this page. The map shows schools by distance. Distance is one input to school admissions, but it is rarely the decisive one.

A typical English state primary or secondary school will fill its places in roughly this priority order: looked-after children first, then siblings of children already at the school, then children with statutory needs, then faith-based criteria for faith schools, then geographic distance as a tiebreaker. By the time distance gets a turn, many of the places at an oversubscribed school are already gone.

In some London boroughs and a handful of other oversubscribed areas, even the distance tiebreaker gives way to a lottery for the remaining places. A family living 200m from a school can miss out while one living 800m away gets in by luck of the draw.

The honest framing for a buyer: a property close to a good school improves your odds, it does not guarantee admission. Treat the distance map as a shortlist of schools to actually research.

What our schools section covers

For any UK address, your report shows the nearest schools by phase along with their distance and address.

Schools by phase

Primary, secondary, sixth-form and all-through schools, listed separately so you can see what's nearby for each stage of education.

Distance from the property

Straight-line distance in metres or kilometres. Walking time will be longer because of streets and crossings; we show the geographical figure councils tend to use for admissions.

Full school address

Name and street address of each school, so you can drop it straight into a maps app or look up the official admissions page.

What we don't yet show

Ofsted ratings (and Estyn for Wales) are not currently in the report. Methodology changes mean the latest letter alone is misleading without the inspection history; we'd rather show both, which is on our roadmap.

How to research catchment for real

Start with the Local Authority's admissions site

Every Local Authority publishes its admissions criteria and, crucially, last year's furthest-distance-offered for each oversubscribed school. That last figure is the single most useful number on the entire process. If your prospective home is further from the school than the previous year's cutoff, your chances of an offer through distance alone are slim.

Then read the school's own admissions policy

The LA publishes the rules at high level. The school's own policy fills in the detail: how distance is measured (straight line, walking route, by ward), how ties are broken, whether siblings include half-siblings, what counts as a "looked-after" child. Two schools half a mile apart can have completely different practical thresholds.

Cross-check with local parent groups

Facebook groups for the catchment area will tell you which roads got in last year and which families ended up at their second or third choice. The data is anecdotal but it is current, and it shows the mood of last year's intake in a way no official document does.

If a property's value depends on catchment, ask in writing

For high-stakes moves where the schools are part of the price you're paying, contact the LA admissions team and the school directly. A specific address question gets a specific answer. They will not promise admission, but they will tell you whether the address has historically fallen inside or outside the catchment.

National coverage

Our schools dataset holds 41,084 schools across England (40,550) and Wales (534). The split by phase: 22,745 primary, 5,784 secondary, 481 sixth-form (16+), 171 all-through and 489 nursery. State-funded schools and most independents are included; a small number of independent schools that don't register with the Department for Education will be missing.

Sources: Department for Education Get Information About Schools register, Welsh Government school directory.

Common questions

Ofsted (and Estyn for Wales) ratings are a useful single-line judgement on a school, but they update infrequently and the methodology has changed substantially over the years. Reading them in isolation is misleading. We are planning to add them in a future iteration alongside the historical inspection record so you can see direction of travel, not just the latest letter. For now, look up the school directly on the Ofsted or Estyn website.
We cover England (Department for Education) and Wales (Welsh Government) in our schools data. Scotland (Education Scotland) and Northern Ireland (Department of Education NI) maintain their own school registers, which we do not currently include.
Yes, where they appear in the Department for Education's register. Most independent schools register voluntarily and so are present, but a small number choose not to and would be missing. The data does not distinguish state-funded from independent in a single field, but the school type usually makes it clear.
No, not necessarily. Distance is a tiebreaker, not a guarantee. Most local authorities prioritise siblings of existing pupils first, then children with statutory needs, then faith criteria for faith schools, and only then distance. Oversubscribed schools fill up before reaching distance-based applicants. Always check the admissions criteria for the specific school and the last year's furthest distance offered.
Three sources. Your Local Authority's admissions site publishes the official criteria and last year's furthest distance offered. The school's own admissions policy is on its website and explains tiebreakers in detail. And local parent groups (often on Facebook) will tell you which roads got in last year and which did not. Use all three.
Primary covers ages four to eleven roughly. Secondary covers eleven to sixteen (or eighteen with sixth form). All-through schools take the same children right through from four or five to sixteen or eighteen. Middle schools (a small minority of areas) bridge primary and secondary, typically nine to thirteen, after which children move to an upper school. We bucket "Middle deemed primary" and "Middle deemed secondary" into Primary and Secondary respectively for ease of reading.
We refresh from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register and the Welsh Government school directory. Both are updated regularly. Our latest aggregate was 1 May 2026. New schools and closures take a few months to flow through.

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