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How far schools admitted from, council by council

After each admissions round, councils publish how far away the last child offered a place at each oversubscribed school lived. That figure is the closest thing most English schools have to a catchment. We hold it for 3,627 schools across 88 councils: the middle school admitted from 1.28 miles, the last place at 1,498 went to a child living under a mile away, and 399 reached five miles or more. Pick yours. School sites show you the school; this shows you whether the house gets a child in.

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88councils with published figures
3,627schools with a real distance

Schools people are checking

The school pages readers reach most often this month, each with the distance the council last admitted from.

Fortismere School · 1.88 miAlexandra Park School · 0.52 miGlyn School · 1.49 miCheadle Hulme High School · 0.96 miStockport School · 0.93 miDenbigh School · 2.70 miSt Mary Magdalene Academy · 0.18 miSt Damian's RC Science College · 4.22 miRoundhay School · 0.47 miHarris Academy Chobham · 0.58 miAshlyns School · 3.82 miThe Frances Bardsley Academy for Girls · 2.12 miPriory School · 1.00 miBexley Grammar School · 1.92 miYerbury Primary School · 0.31 miNorthwood School · 0.70 miDr Challoner's Grammar School · 0.14 miChailey School · 4.80 miColdfall Primary School · 1.59 miHaberdashers' Crayford Academy · 1.64 mi

Councils

CouncilSchools with a figureMiddle distanceFilled from under a mileTightest school
Bedford 12 0.88 mi 58% Priory Primary School 0.22 mi
Bexley 5 3.91 mi 0% Haberdashers' Crayford Academy 1.64 mi
Birmingham 52 0.68 mi 62% Cromwell Junior and Infant School 0.14 mi
Bolton 41 1.1 mi 46% Heathfield Primary School 0.22 mi
Bracknell Forest 4 1.13 mi 50% Great Hollands Primary School 0.27 mi
Brent 49 2.26 mi 10% Harlesden Primary School 0.75 mi
Brighton and Hove 10 0.93 mi 60% Carlton Hill Primary School 0.35 mi
Bristol, City of 46 0.73 mi 67% Hannah More Primary School 0.28 mi
Bromley 48 1.08 mi 48% Clare House Primary School 0.33 mi
Buckinghamshire 60 0.73 mi 58% Chalfont St Giles Junior School 0.05 mi
Bury 30 0.99 mi 53% Chantlers Primary School 0.36 mi
Calderdale 12 1.26 mi 42% Bolton Brow Primary Academy 0.35 mi
Cambridgeshire 57 1.37 mi 40% Middlefield Primary Academy 0.22 mi
Camden 5 1.49 mi 20% Acland Burghley School 0.93 mi
Central Bedfordshire 40 1.23 mi 42% Gravenhurst Academy 0.24 mi
Cheshire East 114 1.85 mi 34% Pebble Brook Primary School 0.02 mi
Cheshire West and Chester 31 1.46 mi 29% Cambridge Road Community Primary and Nursery School 0.17 mi
County Durham 26 1.89 mi 23% Framwellgate Moor Primary School 0.45 mi
Coventry 34 0.76 mi 56% Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School 0.25 mi
Croydon 21 0.6 mi 71% Rockmount Primary School 0.31 mi
Derby 67 2.12 mi 21% Becket Primary School 0.31 mi
Devon 53 1.79 mi 28% The Duchy School Bradninch 0.07 mi
Dorset 34 2.65 mi 18% St Mary's Catholic First School, Dorchester 0.39 mi
Dudley 26 0.92 mi 58% Blowers Green Primary School 0.22 mi
Ealing 13 0.36 mi 92% Holy Family Catholic Primary School 0.24 mi
East Sussex 34 2.45 mi 26% Park Mead Primary School 0.26 mi
Essex 188 1.14 mi 46% St Michael's Church of England Voluntary Aided Junior School 0.1 mi
Gloucestershire 146 8.52 mi 18% Charlton Kings Junior School 0.29 mi
Greenwich 49 1.92 mi 31% Greenslade Primary School 0.18 mi
Hackney 31 1.16 mi 45% Betty Layward Primary School 0.23 mi
Haringey 35 0.52 mi 77% Belmont Infant School 0.22 mi
Harrow 15 0.86 mi 60% Krishna Avanti Primary School 0.32 mi
Hartlepool 3 1.25 mi 0% High Tunstall College of Science 1.2 mi
Havering 25 0.81 mi 64% Nelmes Primary School 0.31 mi
Hertfordshire 313 1.6 mi 35% Ashfield Junior School 0.07 mi
Hillingdon 21 1.0 mi 48% Pinkwell Primary School 0.49 mi
Hounslow 11 0.71 mi 82% Spring Grove Primary School 0.32 mi
Islington 26 0.41 mi 85% St John's Highbury Vale CofE Primary School 0.09 mi
Kensington and Chelsea 12 0.72 mi 67% Thomas Jones Primary School 0.15 mi
Kingston upon Thames 3 0.58 mi 100% Alexandra Primary School 0.32 mi
Kirklees 118 2.02 mi 25% Carlton Junior and Infant School 0.13 mi
Knowsley 16 0.55 mi 75% Park Brow Community Primary School 0.21 mi
Lambeth 11 0.71 mi 64% Streatham Wells Primary 0.24 mi
Leeds 66 0.71 mi 65% St Anthony's Catholic Primary School, Beeston 0.17 mi
Leicester 22 0.69 mi 73% Knighton Mead Primary Academy 0.24 mi
Lewisham 18 0.49 mi 89% Horniman Primary School 0.29 mi
Manchester 7 1.38 mi 14% Co-op Academy Belle Vue 0.85 mi
Merton 9 1.0 mi 44% Lonesome Primary School 0.25 mi
Middlesbrough 44 0.95 mi 55% Ayresome Primary School 0.04 mi
Milton Keynes 19 1.45 mi 26% Newton Leys Primary School 0.36 mi
Newcastle upon Tyne 20 1.18 mi 40% Our Lady and St Anne's Catholic Primary School 0.14 mi
Newham 28 0.75 mi 86% Royal Wharf Primary School 0.2 mi
North Somerset 8 1.0 mi 50% All Saints Church of England Primary School 0.43 mi
North Yorkshire 49 3.37 mi 8% Skipton, Water Street Community Primary School 0.61 mi
Nottinghamshire 75 1.28 mi 43% Hucknall Flying High Academy 0.18 mi
Oldham 19 0.56 mi 74% Corpus Christi RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy 0.08 mi
Oxfordshire 70 1.23 mi 46% St Edburg's Church of England (VA) School 0.2 mi
Peterborough 17 1.0 mi 47% Hampton Lakes Primary School 0.43 mi
Portsmouth 22 0.75 mi 73% St John's Cathedral Catholic Primary School 0.24 mi
Reading 13 0.84 mi 54% Oxford Road Community School 0.14 mi
Richmond upon Thames 9 0.84 mi 67% Barnes Primary School 0.25 mi
Salford 22 0.68 mi 91% James Brindley Community Primary School 0.17 mi
Sandwell 47 0.77 mi 68% Crocketts Community Primary School 0.28 mi
Sefton 23 1.34 mi 22% Litherland High School 0.44 mi
Sheffield 34 1.3 mi 41% Netherthorpe Primary School 0.22 mi
Solihull 30 1.01 mi 47% Tudor Grange Primary Academy, St James 0.28 mi
Somerset 39 1.12 mi 46% Stoke St Michael Primary School 0.25 mi
Southend-on-Sea 7 1.01 mi 43% Chalkwell Hall Junior School 0.17 mi
Southwark 3 0.23 mi 100% Crampton Primary 0.22 mi
Staffordshire 71 1.79 mi 25% Ridgeway Primary Academy 0.16 mi
Stockport 76 1.81 mi 26% All Saints Church of England Primary School Marple 0.38 mi
Suffolk 42 1.84 mi 26% Grace Cook Primary School 0.17 mi
Surrey 151 1.42 mi 38% Farncombe Church of England Infant School 0.2 mi
Sutton 12 0.87 mi 58% Manor Park Primary Academy 0.29 mi
Tameside 22 0.91 mi 55% Godley Community Primary Academy 0.33 mi
Tower Hamlets 14 0.39 mi 93% Kobi Nazrul Primary School 0.2 mi
Walsall 25 0.71 mi 76% New Invention Learning Academy 0.06 mi
Waltham Forest 25 0.47 mi 88% Greenleaf Primary School 0.24 mi
Wandsworth 19 0.41 mi 89% Sheringdale Primary School 0.19 mi
Warwickshire 204 2.51 mi 20% St Nicolas CofE Academy 0.19 mi
West Northamptonshire 28 1.89 mi 32% Monksmoor Park Church of England Primary School 0.21 mi
West Sussex 87 1.35 mi 36% St Wilfrid's Catholic Primary School 0.11 mi
Westminster 6 0.51 mi 100% St James & St John Church of England Primary School 0.14 mi
Wigan 36 0.78 mi 67% Our Lady's RC Primary School Wigan 0.18 mi
Windsor and Maidenhead 45 2.36 mi 22% St Luke's CofE Primary School 0.32 mi
Wirral 19 0.93 mi 58% St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Upton 0.12 mi
Wokingham 23 1.36 mi 35% Alder Grove Church of England Primary School 0.29 mi
Worcestershire 55 2.04 mi 13% Beaconside Primary and Nursery School 0.29 mi

A council missing from this list has not published its figures in a form we can import, or publishes none. We add councils as their data becomes available and never model a distance where none was published: a modelled estimate is marked as such wherever it appears on this site.

Common questions about admission distances

What is the last distance offered?

After each admissions round, councils publish how far away the last child offered a place at each oversubscribed school lived. It is usually measured in a straight line from the home to the school's gate or main entrance, though some councils use a walking route. It is the closest thing most English schools have to a catchment area, and it describes the last round, not the next.

How far away can you live and still get a school place?

It depends on the school. Across the 3,627 schools with a published figure here, the middle one admitted from 1.28 miles. The last place went to a child living under a mile away at 1,498 of them, and 399 reached five miles or more. Each council's page has its own schools.

Which school admitted from the shortest distance?

Pebble Brook Primary School in Crewe, in Cheshire East: its last place went to a child living 0.02 miles away, about 32 metres in 2025/26, according to the council's published figures.

Does living inside the distance guarantee a place?

No. The distance is where the last round's offers ran out, and it moves every year with how many children apply and where they live. Schools place looked-after children, siblings and sometimes faith applicants before distance, so those groups fill places first.

Why is my council not listed?

Either it has not published its figures in a form that can be imported, or it publishes none. Councils are added as their data becomes available, and a distance is never modelled where none was published.

How do I check one address?

Every school page has a checker: put a postcode in and it is measured against that school's distance. The full property report does the same for every school near an address at once, alongside the house itself.