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  • School catchment areas
  • Find schools by distance
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School types

  • Private schools
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  • Grammar schools
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  • Church of England
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  • Jewish
  • Muslim
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League tables

  • Top 100 primary schools
  • Top 100 secondary schools

Useful Tools

  • All Tools
  • Distance Checker
  • Admissions Calculator
  • Compare Schools

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Pricing

Everything on Catchment Area is free to use. Catchment data will be a single payment of £19 when it launches.

Free

£0

Everything you need to shortlist schools

  • Every school in England

    A profile for each one, with contact details and key facts

  • Ofsted

    Inspections and the new report cards

  • Results

    KS2 and GCSE results

  • Parent View

    What parents told Ofsted

  • Distance from home

    How far every nearby school is from your door

  • Compare

    Schools side by side

  • Save schools

    No account needed

Find schools near you

Catchment data

Coming soon

£19once

Everything in Free, plus where places went

  • Last distance offered

    How far away the last child offered a place lived, each recent year

  • Applications per place

    How oversubscribed each school is

  • Your home on the map

    Where your address sits against past distances

  • 12 months

    Long enough for a full admissions round

  • No subscription

    One payment that never renews

One payment, one admissions round

12 months covers you from the day applications open to the day offers arrive, for primary and secondary.

  1. September

    Applications open

  2. 31 October

    Secondary deadline

  3. 15 January

    Primary deadline

  4. 1 March

    Secondary offer day

  5. 16 April

    Primary offer day

Questions

Is it a subscription?

No. You pay £19 once and get catchment data for every school we cover for 12 months. It does not renew.

Do I need an account for the free features?

No. You can search, compare and save schools without signing up.

Does living inside last year's distance guarantee a place?

No. The distance changes every year with how many children apply and where they live, and siblings and other criteria usually come first. It shows how places were offered in past years. The admissions criteria decide the outcome.