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Private schools, council by council

The Department for Education registers every fee-paying school in England, 2,462 of them, with its age range, whether it is single-sex, its faith and how many pupils it has. Almost nobody surfaces that register, because it files every one of them under "phase: not applicable". This does. Pick a council for the full list, or an area guide for the schools within reach of one postcode.

2,462independent schools on the register

151councils with at least one

Councils

Council	Independent schools
Barking and Dagenham	4
Barnet	35
Barnsley	3
Bath and North East Somerset	9
Bedford	8
Bexley	6
Birmingham	55
Blackburn with Darwen	11
Blackpool	6
Bolton	12
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole	11
Bracknell Forest	8
Bradford	16
Brent	14
Brighton and Hove	12
Bristol, City of	14
Bromley	15
Buckinghamshire	33
Bury	5
Calderdale	11
Cambridgeshire	36
Camden	31
Central Bedfordshire	5
Cheshire East	19
Cheshire West and Chester	16
City of London	5
Cornwall	14
County Durham	11
Coventry	6
Croydon	23
Cumberland	5
Darlington	4
Derby	9
Derbyshire	27
Devon	41
Doncaster	7
Dorset	21
Dudley	6
Ealing	18
East Riding of Yorkshire	8
East Sussex	26
Enfield	10
Essex	44
Gateshead	7
Gloucestershire	31
Greenwich	14
Hackney	31
Halton	3
Hammersmith and Fulham	20
Hampshire	65
Haringey	10
Harrow	11
Hartlepool	2
Havering	8
Herefordshire, County of	11
Hertfordshire	52
Hillingdon	9
Hounslow	12
Isle of Wight	3
Islington	6
Kensington and Chelsea	31
Kent	93
Kingston upon Hull, City of	5
Kingston upon Thames	10
Kirklees	17
Knowsley	1
Lambeth	8
Lancashire	62
Leeds	15
Leicester	18
Leicestershire	34
Lewisham	8
Lincolnshire	30
Liverpool	14
Luton	7
Manchester	19
Medway	7
Merton	16
Middlesbrough	3
Milton Keynes	7
Newcastle upon Tyne	7
Newham	7
Norfolk	35
North East Lincolnshire	5
North Lincolnshire	10
North Northamptonshire	8
North Somerset	3
North Tyneside	4
North Yorkshire	25
Northumberland	6
Nottingham	11
Nottinghamshire	18
Oldham	17
Oxfordshire	50
Peterborough	4
Plymouth	5
Portsmouth	4
Reading	9
Redbridge	15
Redcar and Cleveland	5
Richmond upon Thames	24
Rochdale	14
Rotherham	1
Rutland	6
Salford	30
Sandwell	8
Sefton	9
Sheffield	8
Shropshire	31
Slough	8
Solihull	5
Somerset	35
South Gloucestershire	5
Southampton	7
Southend-on-Sea	7
Southwark	13
St. Helens	6
Staffordshire	37
Stockport	18
Stockton-on-Tees	8
Stoke-on-Trent	19
Suffolk	32
Sunderland	5
Surrey	111
Sutton	8
Swindon	2
Tameside	8
Telford and Wrekin	7
Thurrock	1
Torbay	2
Tower Hamlets	15
Trafford	10
Wakefield	12
Walsall	11
Waltham Forest	5
Wandsworth	30
Warrington	2
Warwickshire	30
West Berkshire	15
West Northamptonshire	16
West Sussex	47
Westminster	31
Westmorland and Furness	13
Wigan	9
Wiltshire	28
Windsor and Maidenhead	17
Wirral	9
Wokingham	12
Wolverhampton	10
Worcestershire	30
York	7

Independent schools are inspected by the Independent Schools Inspectorate or Ofsted and set their own fees and entry tests; none of that is on the register, so none of it is here. What is here is exactly what the register holds, refreshed with each import.