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Schools near BH4

Every Ofsted-rated school within 3 miles, on the map and in the table, against the national picture. Search a full postcode and the table adds a column for that address: whether it sits inside each school's last admission distance.

BH4

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82% Outstanding or Good · above the 80% national figure

Within 3 miles: 36 schools, 2 universities.

2 Outstanding 16 Good 1 Requires improvement 3 Report card 14 No current grade

Outstanding Good Requires improvement Inadequate Report card No current grade published admission distance estimated

Report card: inspected since Ofsted stopped one-word grades in late 2024, so it has a report card rather than a grade. No current grade: Ofsted's register holds no graded inspection for the school, usually because it is new, or has become an academy and not yet been inspected as one.

No reading for an address here: BH4 is a district, and a school's admission distance is measured from a home, not from the middle of an area. Search a full postcode in BH4 and its table adds a column saying, school by school, whether that address sits inside last time's distance. Check a postcode

School Phase Ofsted Distance Admitted from Results
Academy converter Primary No current grade 0.5 mi away 0.49 mi est. 67.0% KS2
Other independent school All-through fee-paying Not Ofsted-rated 0.7 mi away no figure no figure
Non-maintained special school Special Ungraded inspection, December 2024: standards maintained 0.9 mi away no figure no figure
Academy converter Primary Report card 1.0 mi away 0.61 mi est. 66.0% KS2
Other independent school Secondary fee-paying Not Ofsted-rated 1.0 mi away no figure 3.4 A8
Free schools Secondary Good 1.4 mi away 0.6 mi est. no figure
Academy converter Primary Good 1.4 mi away 0.48 mi est. 58.0% KS2
Other independent school Primary fee-paying Not Ofsted-rated 1.4 mi away no figure no figure
Non-maintained special school Special Good 1.6 mi away no figure no figure
Academy converter Primary Good 1.6 mi away 0.3 mi est. 64.0% KS2
Academy converter Primary Good 1.6 mi away no figure 64.0% KS2
Academy converter Primary Good 1.6 mi away 0.39 mi est. no figure
Other independent school Primary fee-paying Not Ofsted-rated 1.7 mi away no figure no figure
Academy converter Primary Good 1.7 mi away 0.45 mi est. 63.0% KS2
Community special school Special No current grade 1.8 mi away no figure no figure
Academy converter Primary Good 1.8 mi away 0.38 mi est. 51.0% KS2
Academy sponsor led Secondary Outstanding 1.8 mi away 0.7 mi est. 55.4 A8
Academy sponsor led Secondary Ungraded inspection, January 2025: standards maintained 1.9 mi away 0.48 mi est. 60.7 A8
Academy converter Primary Requires improvement 1.9 mi away 0.23 mi est. 67.0% KS2
Academy converter Primary Good 2.0 mi away 0.8 mi est. no figure
Academy sponsor led Secondary Report card 2.1 mi away 1.02 mi est. 33.6 A8
Academy sponsor led Primary No current grade 2.1 mi away 0.56 mi est. 58.0% KS2
Academy converter Primary Good 2.2 mi away 0.31 mi est. 85.0% KS2
Special post 16 institution Special No current grade 2.2 mi away no figure no figure
Academy converter Primary Good 2.3 mi away 0.44 mi est. 88.0% KS2
Community special school Special Report card 2.3 mi away no figure no figure
Academy converter Primary No current grade 2.4 mi away 0.43 mi est. 58.0% KS2
Academy sponsor led Secondary Good 2.4 mi away 0.49 mi est. 44.2 A8
Academy converter Primary Good 2.5 mi away 0.47 mi est. 54.0% KS2
Voluntary aided school Primary Good 2.5 mi away 0.28 mi est. 98.0% KS2
Academy sponsor led Primary No current grade 2.5 mi away 0.66 mi est. 75.0% KS2
Other independent special school Special No current grade 2.5 mi away no figure no figure
Academy converter Primary Good 2.6 mi away 0.2 mi est. 38.0% KS2
Academy converter Primary Good 2.6 mi away 0.62 mi est. no figure
Academy converter Secondary Outstanding 2.6 mi away 0.67 mi est. 74.2 A8
Academy sponsor led Primary No current grade 2.9 mi away 0.37 mi est. 77.0% KS2

The table includes 4 fee-paying schools. State schools only

"Admitted from" is how far the last child offered a place lived, in the year shown, from the council's own published figure. Where a council publishes none, "est." is a modelled estimate and meaningfully less reliable. "No limit" means the council's own figure puts the furthest offer beyond any commute, so distance did not decide who got in. Results are the share meeting the expected standard for primaries, and Attainment 8 (A8) for secondaries: the Department for Education published no Progress 8 for 2024/25, because those pupils sat no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020. A school whose newest year still has a Progress 8 shows it as P8. Nothing here is a catchment boundary: most English schools have none, and the distance moves every year.

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