How close do I need to live to get into Brooklands Farm Primary School?

5.145 miles was enough in 2025/26, which makes it the best evidence available rather than a promise about next year. The distance moves every year with the number of applications.

← School guide Admissions

Brooklands Farm Primary School

Academy converter in Milton Keynes, MK10 7EU. Rated Outstanding by Ofsted in September 2022.

How far it admitted from

5.145 miles

In the 2025/26 admissions round, the furthest-away child offered a place at Brooklands Farm Primary School lived 5.145 miles from the school. Published by Milton Keynes.

This is not a catchment area. Most English schools do not have one. When a school is oversubscribed, places are offered outward from it until they run out, so the distance changes every year with how many children applied and where they lived. A figure of 5.145 miles last year does not guarantee a place at 5.145 miles this year, and living closer than that is not a guarantee either. Treat it as the best available evidence, not a boundary.

How the school is doing

Ofsted	Outstanding, inspected 21 September 2022
Free school meals	10.2% of pupils eligible

Ofsted, and the Department for Education's published performance data.

Postcode districts within 5.145 miles

These districts have their centre inside last year's distance. A district covers a wide area, so being listed here does not mean a particular address is in range. Check the address itself.

District	Area	From the school
MK10	Milton Keynes	0.7 mi
MK15	Milton Keynes	1.5 mi
MK20	Milton Keynes	1.8 mi
MK7	Milton Keynes	2.2 mi
MK6	Milton Keynes	2.5 mi
MK9	Milton Keynes	2.7 mi
MK14	Milton Keynes	2.7 mi
MK16	Milton Keynes	2.9 mi
MK1	Milton Keynes	3.4 mi
MK17	Milton Keynes	3.5 mi
MK13	Milton Keynes	3.7 mi
MK2	Milton Keynes	4.4 mi

Checking a specific address

The distance that matters is the one from this school to the front door you are considering. Put the postcode in and the report works it out, alongside flood risk, sold prices, crime and thirty-odd other checks on the same address.

Common questions

What is the catchment area for Brooklands Farm Primary School?

It does not have one in the sense most people mean. Like most English schools, when it is oversubscribed it offers places outward from the school until they run out. The nearest thing to an answer is that the furthest child admitted in 2025/26 lived 5.145 miles away, according to Milton Keynes.

How close do I need to live to get a place?

Nobody can tell you that in advance, and anyone who says otherwise is guessing. The distance moves every year with the number of applications. 5.145 miles was enough last year, which makes it the best evidence available, not a promise about next year.

Does buying a house nearby guarantee a place?

No. Admission criteria usually put looked-after children, siblings and sometimes faith or aptitude criteria ahead of distance, so places can be filled before distance is reached at all. Councils also check that the address is genuinely where the child lives.

Admission distance published by Milton Keynes. School details from the Department for Education's register, ratings from Ofsted. Read how every figure on this site is sourced on the methodology page. If something here looks wrong, tell us and it goes on the accuracy log.