School guide

Schools near AL8

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.

AL8

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

Within 3 miles: 34 schools.

5 Outstanding 15 Good 1 Requires improvement 4 Report card 9 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: AL8 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 AL8 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
Community school Primary Good 0.5 mi away 0.75 mi varies 60.0% KS2
Academy converter Primary Good 0.5 mi away 0.65 mi varies 78.0% KS2
Academy converter Primary Ungraded inspection, June 2025: standards maintained 0.7 mi away 0.19 mi est. 75.0% KS2
Community special school Special Outstanding 0.9 mi away no figure no figure
Local authority nursery school Nursery Outstanding 0.9 mi away no figure no figure
Academy converter Secondary Good 1.0 mi away 1.32 mi varies 47.9 A8
Community school Primary Good 1.0 mi away 1.54 mi varies 77.0% KS2
Community school Primary No current grade 1.0 mi away 1.61 mi varies 62.0% KS2
Voluntary aided school Primary Report card 1.0 mi away 0.28 mi est. 70.0% KS2
Community school Primary Good 1.0 mi away 0.37 mi varies 55.0% KS2
Voluntary aided school Primary Good 1.1 mi away 0.89 mi est. 62.0% KS2
Academy converter Secondary Good 1.1 mi away 2.59 mi varies 50.8 A8
Academy sponsor led Primary Requires improvement 1.2 mi away 1.38 mi varies 40.0% KS2
Community school Primary Good 1.3 mi away 0.21 mi varies 80.0% KS2
Community school Primary No current grade 1.3 mi away 2.28 mi varies 80.0% KS2
Academy special converter Special Ungraded inspection, December 2024: standards maintained 1.3 mi away no figure no figure
Academy converter Primary Report card 1.4 mi away 0.48 mi varies 64.0% KS2
Academy sponsor led Secondary No current grade 1.4 mi away 7.11 mi varies 35.7 A8
Academy converter Primary Ungraded inspection, November 2024: standards maintained 1.4 mi away no figure no figure
Voluntary aided school Primary Good 1.4 mi away 0.86 mi est. 73.0% KS2
Local authority nursery school Nursery Outstanding 1.6 mi away no figure no figure
Voluntary aided school Primary No current grade 1.6 mi away 0.48 mi est. 76.0% KS2
Academy sponsor led Primary Report card 1.7 mi away 0.28 mi est. 76.0% KS2
Other independent school All-through fee-paying Not Ofsted-rated 1.7 mi away no figure no figure
Academy sponsor led Primary Good 1.8 mi away 4.11 mi varies 52.0% KS2
Free schools special Special Report card 2.0 mi away no figure no figure
Community school Primary Good 2.0 mi away 3.26 mi varies 65.0% KS2
Community school Primary Good 2.1 mi away 1.48 mi varies 64.0% KS2
Community school Primary Good 2.1 mi away 1.41 mi varies 69.0% KS2
Community school Primary Good 2.4 mi away 0.35 mi varies 38.0% KS2
Local authority nursery school Nursery Outstanding 2.5 mi away no figure no figure
Academy converter Primary Outstanding 2.7 mi away 0.21 mi est. 64.0% KS2
Community school Primary Good 2.7 mi away 4.05 mi varies 60.0% KS2
Community school Primary No current grade 2.9 mi away 3.66 mi varies 69.0% KS2

The table includes 1 fee-paying school. 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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