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Schools near BH12

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.

BH12

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74% Outstanding or Good · below the 80% national figure

Within 3 miles: 38 schools, 1 sixth form or FE college (16 plus), 2 universities.

1 Outstanding 16 Good 6 Report card 15 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: BH12 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 BH12 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 Good 0.2 mi away 0.3 mi est. 64.0% KS2
Academy converter Primary Good 0.4 mi away 0.48 mi est. 58.0% KS2
Academy sponsor led Secondary Report card 0.4 mi away 1.02 mi est. 33.6 A8
Academy sponsor led Primary No current grade 0.6 mi away 0.56 mi est. 58.0% KS2
Academy sponsor led Primary Report card 0.7 mi away no figure 52.0% KS2
Community special school Special Report card 0.8 mi away no figure no figure
Academy converter Primary Report card 0.8 mi away 0.38 mi est. no figure
Non-maintained special school Special Good 0.8 mi away no figure no figure
Academy converter Primary Report card 0.8 mi away 0.61 mi est. 66.0% KS2
Academy converter Primary Good 0.9 mi away 0.39 mi est. no figure
Non-maintained special school Special Ungraded inspection, December 2024: standards maintained 0.9 mi away no figure no figure
Academy converter Primary Good 1.0 mi away no figure 64.0% KS2
Other independent special school Special No current grade 1.0 mi away no figure no figure
Other independent school All-through fee-paying Not Ofsted-rated 1.2 mi away no figure no figure
Other independent school Primary fee-paying Not Ofsted-rated 1.3 mi away no figure no figure
Academy converter Primary Good 1.3 mi away 0.45 mi est. 63.0% KS2
Voluntary aided school Secondary Good 1.4 mi away 0.57 mi est. 46.4 A8
Academy converter Primary Good 1.5 mi away 0.2 mi est. 38.0% KS2
Academy converter Primary Ungraded inspection, March 2025: standards maintained 1.5 mi away 0.59 mi est. 73.0% KS2
Academy sponsor led Primary Good 1.7 mi away 0.49 mi est. 68.0% KS2
Academy sponsor led Secondary Outstanding 1.7 mi away 0.7 mi est. 55.4 A8
Academy converter Primary No current grade 1.7 mi away 0.43 mi est. 58.0% KS2
Academy sponsor led Secondary Good 1.7 mi away 0.49 mi est. 44.2 A8
Academy converter Secondary No current grade 1.8 mi away 0.75 mi est. 32.5 A8
Academy sponsor led Secondary Ungraded inspection, January 2025: standards maintained 1.8 mi away 0.48 mi est. 60.7 A8
Academy sponsor led Primary No current grade 1.8 mi away 0.37 mi est. 77.0% KS2
Academy converter Primary Report card 1.9 mi away no figure no figure
Academy sponsor led Secondary Good 1.9 mi away 0.81 mi est. 44.3 A8
Academy converter Primary Good 1.9 mi away 0.65 mi est. 64.0% KS2
Academy converter Primary Ungraded inspection, December 2024: standards maintained 1.9 mi away 0.4 mi est. 58.0% KS2
Studio schools Secondary No current grade 1.9 mi away 0.45 mi est. 42.4 A8
Academy converter Primary Good 2.0 mi away 0.8 mi est. no figure
Academy converter Primary No current grade 2.1 mi away 0.46 mi est. 15.0% KS2
Academy converter Primary No current grade 2.1 mi away 0.49 mi est. 67.0% KS2
Academy converter Primary Good 2.2 mi away 0.47 mi est. 54.0% KS2
Academy converter Primary Good 2.3 mi away 0.43 mi est. 46.0% KS2
Academy converter Primary Good 2.4 mi away 0.28 mi est. 65.0% KS2
Other independent special school Special No current grade 2.7 mi away no figure no figure

The table includes 2 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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