Build a school shortlist you can actually trust.

Every figure comes from a public source we name and date. The primary source is each school's own published admissions pages for fees, entry points and assessment formats; we cross-check against published ISI inspection reports and Department for Education open data. Each record shows its source and the date we last reviewed it, so you can verify any number yourself.

Tracked schools are reviewed on a weekly cadence, and every record shows when it was last checked. Fees refresh each admissions cycle and on any mid-year change, inspection ratings update when a new report is published, and leavers' destinations refresh annually as schools release results.

It's a database of more than 150,000 verified, sourced rows across roughly 670 schools. A fully covered profile holds over a hundred structured fields — fees, exam results, intake numbers, scholarships, term dates, facilities, staffing, ISI inspection and leavers' destinations — all in the same shape for every school so they compare cleanly.

We hold the same fields for every school in one normalised format, so comparisons are genuinely like-for-like rather than each school's chosen highlight. Our Index uses nine published pillars with public weightings, and where a school's public data is thin we flag the gap and down-weight it instead of guessing.

No. You can browse the directory, open full school records and compare schools side by side without signing up. A free parent account adds saving your shortlist, deadline tracking and your child's fit — but the core research is open to anyone.

Flag it and we re-check it against the primary source. If it's wrong, we correct it for every parent — not just on request from a school. Because each record is dated and sourced, you can usually see straight away whether a number is simply older than you expected or genuinely off.