School guide

Schools near SM7

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.

SM7

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87% Outstanding or Good · above the 80% national figure

Within 3 miles: 39 schools, 1 sixth form or FE college (16 plus).

5 Outstanding 15 Good 1 Requires improvement 2 Report card 16 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: SM7 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 SM7 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
Voluntary aided school Primary Good 0.2 mi away 0.62 mi est. 70.0% KS2
Community school Primary Good 0.3 mi away 0.58 mi est. 57.0% KS2
Academy converter Primary Good 0.4 mi away 0.43 mi est. no figure
Other independent school Primary fee-paying Not Ofsted-rated 0.6 mi away no figure no figure
Academy converter Secondary Requires improvement 0.8 mi away 1.18 mi est. 45.1 A8
Other independent school Primary fee-paying Not Ofsted-rated 1.0 mi away no figure no figure
Academy converter Primary Good 1.2 mi away 0.43 mi est. 70.0% KS2
Academy converter Primary Good 1.2 mi away 0.27 mi est. no figure
Academy converter Primary Good 1.4 mi away 1.01 mi est. 67.0% KS2
Academy converter Primary Good 1.6 mi away 0.28 mi est. 62.0% KS2
Academy converter Primary Outstanding 1.6 mi away 1.68 mi 2025/26 63.0% KS2
Free schools Secondary Outstanding 1.7 mi away 0.79 mi est. 58.2 A8
Academy converter Primary Outstanding 1.8 mi away 0.48 mi 2026/27 67.0% KS2
Academy converter Primary No current grade 1.8 mi away 0.26 mi est. no figure
Other independent school Primary fee-paying Not Ofsted-rated 1.8 mi away no figure no figure
Academy converter Secondary No current grade 2.0 mi away 0.43 mi est. 46.8 A8
Other independent special school Special No current grade 2.1 mi away no figure no figure
Academy converter Primary Good 2.1 mi away 0.37 mi est. 94.0% KS2
Academy converter Secondary Good 2.2 mi away no figure 42.5 A8
Non-maintained special school Special Outstanding 2.2 mi away no figure no figure
Community school Primary No current grade 2.2 mi away 0.28 mi est. 64.0% KS2
Other independent special school Special No current grade 2.2 mi away no figure no figure
Academy converter Primary Outstanding 2.3 mi away 0.73 mi 2025/26 76.0% KS2
Academy converter Primary Good 2.4 mi away 1.12 mi 2026/27 no figure
Academy converter Secondary Report card 2.4 mi away 1.36 mi est. 80.5 A8
Voluntary aided school Primary Good 2.4 mi away 0.37 mi est. 73.0% KS2
Special post 16 institution Special No current grade 2.6 mi away no figure no figure
Other independent special school Special No current grade 2.6 mi away no figure no figure
Other independent school All-through fee-paying Not Ofsted-rated 2.6 mi away no figure no figure
Other independent school All-through fee-paying Not Ofsted-rated 2.7 mi away no figure no figure
Foundation school Primary Good 2.7 mi away 0.42 mi est. 70.0% KS2
Academy converter Primary Good 2.7 mi away 1.38 mi 2025/26 no figure
Community school Primary Report card 2.8 mi away 0.23 mi est. no figure
Local authority nursery school Nursery No current grade 2.8 mi away no figure no figure
Academy converter Primary No current grade 2.9 mi away 0.29 mi 2025/26 87.0% KS2
Other independent school Primary fee-paying Not Ofsted-rated 2.9 mi away no figure no figure
Community school Primary Good 2.9 mi away 0.19 mi est. 84.0% KS2
Academy converter Secondary Good 3.0 mi away 0.33 mi est. 80.3 A8
Academy converter Primary No current grade 3.0 mi away 0.75 mi 2025/26 84.0% KS2

The table includes 6 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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