Every number traces back to a real source.
PickMySchool does not guess, estimate, or scrape unreliable sources. Below is every dataset we use, its provider, the licence we use it under, and how we attribute it.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence.
Get Information About Schools (GIAS)
Core school register. URN, school name, address, type, phase, age range, gender, religious character, admissions authority, trust/federation, SEN provision type, need categories.
Ofsted inspection outcomes and reports
Inspection grades (Outstanding, Good, RI, Inadequate) plus the new November 2025 report-card grades. Full inspection history per school. Links back to full Ofsted reports.
Independent Schools Inspectorate reports
Inspection history for independent schools (Excellent, Good, Sound, Unsatisfactory). Linked to each private school profile.
School performance tables
KS2 SATs reading, writing, maths; GCSE Attainment 8, Progress 8, EBacc, English & Maths 5+; A-level APS and AAB; destination data.
Education, Health and Care Plans statistics
LA-level EHCP timeliness, refusal rates, annual review decisions, primary need breakdown, caseload totals. Powers every /send/[la] dashboard.
Special educational needs in England
School-level EHCP pupil counts, SEN Support counts, national benchmarks. Powers SEN Experience Indicator.
HMCTS tribunal statistics (SENDIST)
SEND tribunal appeal volumes, appeal rates, appealable decisions per LA.
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
Recent property sales around every school (used on the Area tab, displayed in house-prices blog posts).
OpenStreetMap
Map tiles powering the dashboard school-map view and school-profile maps.
Ofcom fixed broadband coverage
Broadband speed data on the Area tab.
Environment Agency flood risk
Flood risk classification shown on the Area tab.
Police.uk crime statistics
Crime counts and categories around a school (Area tab).
Companies House public data
Identifying academy trusts, multi-academy trusts, and school governance structures.
LA Local Offer directories
Direct-verified URLs for every council's statutory SEND Local Offer page. Linked from every /send/[la] dashboard.
School websites (structured extraction)
Publicly published open-day dates, contact details, admissions policies where schools have these on their own sites.
User-submitted reviews and content
SEN Parent Reviews and general school reviews. Users grant a perpetual, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to display and moderate as set out in the Terms.
Spot something wrong?
All source data is imported automatically from the providers listed above. If a figure looks wrong, it’s almost always because the source has it that way, and we’ll investigate either way.
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