How we work

Ofsted results

Ofsted's data has up to three inspections for each school: the latest report card, the latest graded inspection under the previous framework, and the latest ungraded inspection. We show the most recent one in the terms of the framework it was made under:

• Report card (from November 2025): each area on Ofsted's five-point scale, and whether safeguarding standards were met.
• Graded inspection, September 2024 to November 2025: the area grades, and a note that there was no overall grade.
• Graded inspection before September 2024: the overall grade (Outstanding, Good, Requires improvement or Inadequate) with its date.
• Ungraded inspection: its outcome, such as "School remains Good", with the date of the graded inspection it confirms. When that graded inspection was before September 2019, its date is not in the data, and we say so rather than guess.

A category of concern (special measures, serious weaknesses, requires significant improvement) and any safeguarding failure are shown first. We never convert between frameworks or create an overall grade of our own. Results under a school's previous URN, for example before it became an academy, are labelled with the old school's name, because Ofsted's judgements do not transfer to a new school in law.

In lists, an ungraded inspection's outcome is shortened, never changed: "School remains Good (Concerns)" becomes "Remains Good · concerns noted", "School remains Good (Improving)" becomes "Remains Good · improving", and the other outcomes are shown in full. "Concerns noted" is part of Ofsted's outcome wording and is not a category of concern. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." (checked 3 October 2026).

How the pictures work

• Colours. Report card grades use Ofsted's own report card colours (checked on reports.ofsted.gov.uk, 3 October 2026), always with the grade's name or position, and only for report card grades. Grades from the previous framework are shown in words without colour, so they are never read as report card grades.
• Report cards in lists are a row of eight dots, one per area, always in this order: Inclusion, Curriculum and teaching, Achievement, Attendance and behaviour, Personal development and wellbeing, Early years, Post-16 provision, Leadership and governance. A dashed empty dot means the area does not apply to the school (early years and post-16 apply to some schools only).
• Comparisons are medians of schools (not pupils) in the local authority and in England. Local authority: an orange line. England: a black triangle or a dotted line. Differences are shown as "above", "below" or "close to"; close means within 1 Attainment 8 point, 2 percentage points, or 0.2 applications per place. Higher is not called better.
• Maps: each circle is a school; its size is the number of applications (capped at the 99th percentile: 1,370 for secondary schools, 283 for primary) and its shade is applications per place in four classes: under 1.75, 1.75 to 2.5, 2.5 to 3.5, and 3.5 or more, roughly the quartiles of secondary schools in England. Selective schools have a white ring.
• Application dates on school pages are worked out when the site is built (monthly), so a line can stay up to a few weeks after a deadline passes.

Applications per place

From the Department for Education's school-level applications and offers file. Applications per place is the number of applications naming the school at any preference, divided by the places it offered on National Offer Day. First-preference ratio is the Department's own measure: first preferences divided by places offered.

Limits: places offered are the National Offer Day position, before refusals, waiting lists and appeals, and exclude children with an education, health and care plan. They are not the school's published admission number. Selective schools receive applications whether or not a child passed the test. Faith schools may prioritise families of the faith. Neither figure is your chance of a place, which depends on the school's admissions criteria.

Rankings

• Secondary schools are ranked within their local authority if they are mainstream secondary schools (including all-through and middle-deemed-secondary schools) with at least 30 pupils in the key stage 4 cohort.
• Applications per place is ranked only for schools offering at least 60 Year 7 places (15 Reception places for primary schools). Smaller schools are marked "small".
• Special schools and alternative provision are listed but not ranked.
• Selective schools are ranked with the others and carry a "Selective" label, since their results reflect selection at entry.
• Every table says how it is sorted. Equal values share a rank.

Exam results

Key stage 4 figures are for state-funded mainstream schools and come from the Department for Education's performance data, Academic year 2024/25 (published 23 April 2026), Academic year 2025/26 (published 15 October 2026). Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 or 2025/26 because those pupils had no key stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021; we show the latest year that has it.

Nearby schools

The eight closest schools of the same stage, measured in a straight line between the coordinates in Get Information about Schools. Travel distance and admissions distance are different and can be much longer.

Updates and dates

We rebuild the site from the official files every month and when new results are published. Each page shows the date its data last changed. Ofsted data on the site is currently as at 30 September 2026.