School guide

Schools near LU3

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.

LU3

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86% Outstanding or Good · above the 80% national figure

Within 3 miles: 57 schools, 1 sixth form or FE college (16 plus), 1 university.

7 Outstanding 29 Good 1 Requires improvement 1 Inadequate 4 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: LU3 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 LU3 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 0.2 mi away 0.36 mi est. 75.0% KS2
Community school Primary Good 0.4 mi away 0.35 mi est. 68.0% KS2
Academy converter Primary Good 0.5 mi away no figure no figure
Community school Primary Good 0.5 mi away 0.23 mi est. 43.0% KS2
Community special school Special Outstanding 0.6 mi away no figure no figure
Academy converter Secondary Good 0.6 mi away 0.89 mi est. 49.4 A8
Community school Primary Good 0.7 mi away 0.24 mi est. 77.0% KS2
Community school Primary No current grade 0.7 mi away 0.46 mi est. 53.0% KS2
Community school Primary Good 0.7 mi away no figure 71.0% KS2
Community school Primary Ungraded inspection, November 2024: standards maintained 0.8 mi away no figure no figure
Academy converter Primary Requires improvement 0.8 mi away 0.46 mi est. no figure
Local authority nursery school Nursery Good 0.8 mi away no figure no figure
Community school Primary Good 0.8 mi away no figure 46.0% KS2
Academy sponsor led Secondary Report card 0.8 mi away 0.6 mi est. 36.3 A8
Community school Primary Good 0.9 mi away no figure 73.0% KS2
Other independent school Secondary fee-paying Not Ofsted-rated 1.0 mi away no figure 57.4 A8
Community school Primary Ungraded inspection, November 2024: standards maintained 1.1 mi away 0.23 mi est. 82.0% KS2
Academy converter Primary Good 1.1 mi away 0.22 mi est. 66.0% KS2
Community school Primary Good 1.1 mi away 0.38 mi est. 69.0% KS2
Local authority nursery school Nursery Good 1.1 mi away no figure no figure
Community school Primary Good 1.2 mi away no figure 60.0% KS2
Academy converter Secondary Good 1.2 mi away 0.67 mi est. 50.0 A8
Community school Primary Report card 1.2 mi away 0.25 mi est. 67.0% KS2
Other independent school All-through fee-paying Not Ofsted-rated 1.3 mi away no figure no figure
Other independent school Secondary fee-paying Not Ofsted-rated 1.3 mi away no figure no figure
Academy converter Secondary Outstanding 1.3 mi away 0.38 mi est. 50.1 A8
Free schools Primary Good 1.3 mi away 0.29 mi est. 78.0% KS2
Other independent special school Special No current grade 1.3 mi away no figure no figure
Foundation school Secondary Good 1.4 mi away 0.54 mi est. 44.3 A8
Foundation school Primary Ungraded inspection, November 2024: standards maintained 1.4 mi away no figure 91.0% KS2
Community school Primary Ungraded inspection, December 2024: improved significantly 1.4 mi away 0.3 mi est. 79.0% KS2
Academy converter Secondary Outstanding 1.4 mi away 0.39 mi est. 52.6 A8
Academy converter Secondary Outstanding 1.4 mi away 0.61 mi est. 47.7 A8
Community school Primary Report card 1.4 mi away no figure 54.0% KS2
Other independent school Primary fee-paying Not Ofsted-rated 1.5 mi away no figure no figure
Community school Primary Report card 1.6 mi away 0.2 mi est. 58.0% KS2
Academy converter Secondary Good 1.6 mi away no figure 42.3 A8
Academy converter Primary Good 1.7 mi away 0.33 mi est. 55.0% KS2
Community school Primary No current grade 1.8 mi away 0.36 mi est. 66.0% KS2
Academy converter Primary Good 1.8 mi away 0.34 mi est. no figure
Community special school Special Good 1.8 mi away no figure no figure
Other independent school Secondary fee-paying Not Ofsted-rated 1.8 mi away no figure 41.0 A8
Academy sponsor led Primary Good 2.0 mi away 0.27 mi est. 63.0% KS2
Community school Primary Good 2.1 mi away 0.36 mi est. 57.0% KS2
Free schools special Special Inadequate 2.2 mi away no figure no figure
Academy converter Primary No current grade 2.2 mi away 0.27 mi est. no figure
Local authority nursery school Nursery Good 2.3 mi away no figure no figure
Local authority nursery school Nursery Good 2.5 mi away no figure no figure
Academy converter Primary Outstanding 2.5 mi away 0.28 mi est. 64.0% KS2
Academy converter Primary Good 2.6 mi away 1.0 mi est. no figure
Local authority nursery school Nursery Good 2.6 mi away no figure no figure
Academy converter Primary Good 2.6 mi away 0.24 mi est. 75.0% KS2
Community school Primary Outstanding 2.6 mi away 0.22 mi est. 87.0% KS2
Community school Primary Good 2.6 mi away 0.19 mi est. no figure
Academy sponsor led Secondary No current grade 2.7 mi away no figure 35.9 A8
Academy converter Primary Outstanding 2.9 mi away 0.26 mi est. 80.0% KS2
Other independent school Primary fee-paying Not Ofsted-rated 2.9 mi away no figure no figure

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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