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Schools near BL2

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.

BL2

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84% Outstanding or Good · above the 80% national figure

Within 3 miles: 64 schools, 1 sixth form or FE college (16 plus), 1 university.

6 Outstanding 30 Good 1 Requires improvement 6 Report card 21 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: BL2 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 BL2 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 Secondary No current grade 0.4 mi away 0.53 mi est. 34.3 A8
Academy converter Primary No current grade 0.4 mi away 0.25 mi est. 63.0% KS2
Academy special converter Special Good 0.5 mi away no figure no figure
Other independent special school Special No current grade 0.6 mi away no figure no figure
Community school Primary Outstanding 0.6 mi away 0.28 mi est. 67.0% KS2
Academy sponsor led Primary Good 0.7 mi away 0.25 mi est. 44.0% KS2
Community school Primary Report card 0.7 mi away 0.43 mi est. 45.0% KS2
Academy converter Primary Report card 0.7 mi away 0.42 mi est. 62.0% KS2
Community school Primary Good 0.9 mi away 0.26 mi varies 67.0% KS2
Community school Primary Ungraded inspection, January 2025: standards maintained 1.0 mi away 5.79 mi varies 69.0% KS2
Voluntary aided school Primary Good 1.0 mi away 0.38 mi est. 57.0% KS2
Voluntary aided school Primary Good 1.1 mi away 0.16 mi est. 69.0% KS2
Academy converter Secondary No current grade 1.1 mi away 1.02 mi est. 53.9 A8
Voluntary aided school Primary Good 1.1 mi away 0.34 mi est. 55.0% KS2
Academy converter Primary Good 1.2 mi away 0.99 mi varies no figure
Community school Primary No current grade 1.2 mi away 0.84 mi varies 69.0% KS2
Voluntary aided school Primary Good 1.2 mi away 0.24 mi est. 65.0% KS2
Academy converter Primary Good 1.3 mi away 0.49 mi est. 61.0% KS2
Free schools Primary Ungraded inspection, March 2025: standards maintained 1.4 mi away 0.24 mi est. 95.0% KS2
Community school Primary Outstanding 1.4 mi away 0.22 mi est. 83.0% KS2
Academy converter Primary Good 1.4 mi away 0.99 mi est. no figure
Other independent special school Special No current grade 1.6 mi away no figure no figure
Voluntary controlled school Primary Good 1.6 mi away 0.16 mi est. 47.0% KS2
Academy converter Primary No current grade 1.7 mi away 0.26 mi est. 79.0% KS2
Special post 16 institution Special No current grade 1.7 mi away no figure no figure
Community school Primary Ungraded inspection, March 2025: standards maintained 1.7 mi away 0.26 mi est. 66.0% KS2
Free schools Secondary Outstanding 1.7 mi away 0.66 mi varies 53.0 A8
Non-maintained special school Special Good 1.7 mi away no figure no figure
Academy converter Secondary Ungraded inspection, February 2025: improved significantly 1.8 mi away 1.1 mi varies 55.6 A8
Special post 16 institution Special No current grade 1.8 mi away no figure no figure
Academy sponsor led Primary Good 1.9 mi away 2.92 mi varies 86.0% KS2
Academy converter Secondary Report card 1.9 mi away 2.7 mi varies 46.2 A8
Community school Secondary Good 1.9 mi away 2.2 mi varies 43.7 A8
Community school Primary Good 2.0 mi away 0.34 mi est. 79.0% KS2
Voluntary aided school Primary Report card 2.0 mi away 1.64 mi varies 52.0% KS2
Academy special converter Special Outstanding 2.0 mi away no figure no figure
Academy converter Primary Good 2.0 mi away 0.22 mi est. 84.0% KS2
Academy converter Primary Good 2.0 mi away 0.32 mi est. no figure
Voluntary aided school Primary Good 2.0 mi away 0.32 mi est. 59.0% KS2
Academy converter Primary Good 2.0 mi away 0.32 mi est. no figure
Voluntary aided school Primary Good 2.0 mi away 0.24 mi est. 42.0% KS2
Community school Primary No current grade 2.1 mi away 0.79 mi varies 61.0% KS2
Academy converter Primary No current grade 2.1 mi away 0.54 mi est. 70.0% KS2
Academy converter Primary Good 2.2 mi away 0.2 mi est. 62.0% KS2
Community school Primary Ungraded inspection, March 2025: standards maintained 2.2 mi away 0.2 mi est. 63.0% KS2
Academy converter Primary Good 2.2 mi away 1.59 mi varies 61.0% KS2
Community school Primary Good 2.3 mi away 0.44 mi est. 56.0% KS2
Academy converter Primary Good 2.3 mi away 1.76 mi varies no figure
Voluntary aided school Primary Report card 2.3 mi away 0.46 mi varies 66.0% KS2
Voluntary aided school Primary Good 2.4 mi away 0.28 mi est. 58.0% KS2
Voluntary aided school Primary No current grade 2.5 mi away 0.11 mi est. 84.0% KS2
Academy converter Secondary Requires improvement 2.6 mi away 0.6 mi est. no figure
Academy converter Secondary Good 2.7 mi away 2.5 mi varies 42.8 A8
Academy converter Primary Good 2.7 mi away 0.77 mi varies 63.0% KS2
Academy sponsor led Primary Report card 2.8 mi away 0.35 mi est. 76.0% KS2
Academy sponsor led Primary Good 2.8 mi away 0.32 mi est. 82.0% KS2
Academy converter Primary Good 2.8 mi away 0.34 mi est. no figure
Local authority nursery school Nursery Outstanding 2.9 mi away no figure no figure
Community school Primary Good 2.9 mi away 0.24 mi est. 58.0% KS2
Academy converter Primary Outstanding 2.9 mi away 0.37 mi est. 77.0% KS2
Voluntary aided school Primary No current grade 3.0 mi away 0.16 mi est. 79.0% KS2

3 fee-paying schools are left out of this table: Ofsted grades few of them and none publishes an admission distance. Show them as well · Fee-paying 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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