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Schools near BL6

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.

BL6

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83% Outstanding or Good · above the 80% national figure

Within 3 miles: 14 schools.

2 Outstanding 8 Good 2 Report card 2 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: BL6 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 BL6 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	0.98 mi varies	60.0% KS2
Voluntary aided school	Primary	Good	0.2 mi away	0.28 mi est.	56.0% KS2
Academy special sponsor led	Special	Good	0.3 mi away	no figure	no figure
Voluntary aided school	Primary	Report card	0.5 mi away	0.41 mi est.	73.0% KS2
Academy converter	Primary	Good	0.6 mi away	no figure	62.0% KS2
Voluntary aided school	Secondary	No current grade	0.6 mi away	2.7 mi varies	44.8 A8
Academy sponsor led	Primary	Good	0.8 mi away	0.21 mi est.	36.0% KS2
Community school	Primary	Report card	0.8 mi away	1.11 mi varies	34.0% KS2
Academy converter	Secondary	Good	1.3 mi away	6.93 mi varies	49.2 A8
Community school	Primary	Outstanding	1.4 mi away	1.32 mi varies	78.0% KS2
Other independent special school	Special	No current grade	1.4 mi away	no figure	no figure
Community school	Primary	Good	2.5 mi away	no figure	84.0% KS2
Foundation school	Primary	Good	2.5 mi away	1.17 mi est.	79.0% KS2
Voluntary aided school	Primary	Outstanding	2.8 mi away	0.36 mi est.	74.0% KS2

"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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