Education

Schools & education, near you.

Find your nearest nurseries, schools, colleges, universities and libraries, and see how your local authority compares with England on school readiness, attainment and more. In Scotland, see every secondary school in the council area with its leavers' destinations and qualifications; in Northern Ireland, the council district's leavers by destination and attainment.

  • Nearest settings
  • Attainment & readiness
  • Compared with England
  • Scotland: school leavers

England - the national picture

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How this works

Nearest settings are read live from OpenStreetMap within 8 km of your postcode. It’s community-maintained, so treat it as a guide rather than an official schools register, and confirm details with the school or the DfE’s Get Information about Schools.

The area profile compares your upper-tier local authority with every other in England on each measure, colouring it by where it sits - “best is best”, whichever direction is good. Figures are authority-wide, not for any single school, and come from OHID’s Fingertips, which covers England only. Scottish postcodes instead get every publicly funded secondary school in the council area from the Scottish Government’s Insight benchmarking statistics on statistics.gov.scot: the share of leavers in a positive destination, attaining literacy and numeracy at SCQF level 5, holding at least one Higher and five or more National 5 passes, and their average tariff points, each beside the school’s virtual comparator (similar pupils from across Scotland), with ten years of destinations. Northern Irish postcodes get the council district’s school leavers from the Department of Education’s School Leavers Survey on NISRA’s open data portal: where they went next and the GCSE and A-level thresholds they reached, each beside Northern Ireland’s share and ranked against the eleven districts. Wales gets the nearest settings and the national picture but no area profile.

Sources

  • Education settings: OpenStreetMap contributors, via the Overpass API (ODbL).
  • Area education measures: OHID Fingertips (fingertips.phe.org.uk), carrying DfE and ONS data. Upper-tier local authorities, England. © Crown copyright.
  • Scotland: school leaver statistics (positive destinations, literacy and numeracy, breadth and depth, attainment for all, leaver count), Scottish Government via statistics.gov.scot. OGL v3.
  • Northern Ireland: School Leavers Survey by Local Government District (destination and attainment), Department of Education via NISRA’s open data portal. Source: NISRA : Website: www.nisra.gov.uk. Crown copyright, OGL v3.

An area average is not a verdict on any school or any child. Not affiliated with any government body.