School guide

Schools near LU5

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.

LU5

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85% Outstanding or Good · above the 80% national figure

Within 3 miles: 41 schools.

23 Good 1 Requires improvement 3 Report card 14 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: LU5 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 LU5 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 0.3 mi away 0.82 mi 2026/27 73.0% KS2
Community school Primary No current grade 0.3 mi away 0.45 mi est. 41.0% KS2
Academy sponsor led Primary Good 0.4 mi away 0.24 mi est. 57.0% KS2
Community school Primary No current grade 0.4 mi away 1.13 mi 2026/27 68.0% KS2
Academy sponsor led Primary No current grade 0.5 mi away 0.45 mi est. 39.0% KS2
Community special school Special Good 0.6 mi away no figure no figure
Free schools Secondary No current grade 0.6 mi away no figure 46.1 A8
Community school Primary No current grade 0.8 mi away 1.06 mi 2026/27 36.0% KS2
Academy converter Primary Good 1.2 mi away 0.23 mi est. 79.0% KS2
Community school Primary Good 1.2 mi away 1.8 mi 2026/27 no figure
Academy converter Primary Good 1.2 mi away 0.19 mi est. 72.0% KS2
Academy sponsor led Secondary No current grade 1.3 mi away 1.54 mi est. 36.9 A8
Academy converter Primary No current grade 1.3 mi away 0.59 mi est. 73.0% KS2
Local authority nursery school Nursery Good 1.3 mi away no figure no figure
Local authority nursery school Nursery Good 1.3 mi away no figure no figure
Academy converter Primary Good 1.4 mi away 0.29 mi est. 66.0% KS2
Academy converter Primary Good 1.4 mi away 0.53 mi est. 56.0% KS2
Other independent special school Special No current grade 1.5 mi away no figure no figure
Academy sponsor led Secondary Good 1.5 mi away no figure 45.7 A8
Community school Primary Report card 1.6 mi away no figure 54.0% KS2
Academy converter Primary No current grade 1.7 mi away 0.25 mi est. 33.0% KS2
Academy converter Primary Good 1.8 mi away 0.33 mi est. 55.0% KS2
Academy converter Primary Good 1.8 mi away 0.34 mi est. no figure
Academy converter Secondary Good 1.9 mi away 0.26 mi 2026/27 46.2 A8
Local authority nursery school Nursery Good 1.9 mi away no figure no figure
Academy converter Primary Good 1.9 mi away 3.21 mi 2026/27 39.0% KS2
Foundation school Primary Ungraded inspection, November 2024: standards maintained 1.9 mi away no figure 91.0% KS2
Academy converter Primary Requires improvement 2.0 mi away 0.37 mi est. no figure
Voluntary aided school Primary Report card 2.0 mi away 0.2 mi est. 45.0% KS2
Academy special converter Special No current grade 2.0 mi away no figure no figure
Academy converter Primary Ungraded inspection, January 2025: some aspects not as strong 2.2 mi away 0.6 mi 2026/27 no figure
Academy converter Primary Good 2.2 mi away 0.32 mi est. 32.0% KS2
Academy sponsor led Primary Good 2.2 mi away no figure 64.0% KS2
Academy sponsor led Secondary No current grade 2.4 mi away 0.72 mi est. 40.0 A8
Academy converter Primary Good 2.5 mi away 0.32 mi est. 60.0% KS2
Academy converter Primary Good 2.5 mi away 1.0 mi est. no figure
Academy converter Primary No current grade 2.6 mi away 0.88 mi 2026/27 88.0% KS2
Academy converter Primary Good 2.7 mi away 2.22 mi 2026/27 62.0% KS2
Academy sponsor led Secondary Report card 2.7 mi away no figure 43.0 A8
Academy converter Primary Good 2.8 mi away 0.45 mi est. no figure
Academy converter Secondary Good 2.8 mi away 3.12 mi est. no figure

"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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