Data Sources & Attribution

School Atlas brings together publicly available data from official sources, councils and schools to help parents compare and find schools. This page explains where our data comes from, the licences under which it is used, and how we attribute our sources. Most sources carry a live last-refreshed badge, derived from our ingestion log, so you can see when we last pulled a feed.

Government Data (Open Government Licence)

The majority of school data displayed on School Atlas is Crown Copyright and is reproduced under the terms of the Open Government Licence v3.0 (OGL). This licence permits free reuse of public sector information for both commercial and non-commercial purposes, provided the source is acknowledged.

Department for Education (DfE)

• Get Information About Schools (GIAS)Refreshed 30 days ago · monthly · next 1 Nov 2026 — the official register of schools in England, providing school names, addresses, phases, establishment types, and status information. Bulk register downloaded monthly.
• Explore Education StatisticsRefreshed 6 days ago · several releases a year · next 16 Nov 2026 — 312,923 school performance records spanning 2010-11 to 2025-26. Key Stage 2, Key Stage 4, and Key Stage 5 data including attainment scores, progress measures, subject breakdowns, and pupil destination data (where leavers go after school). DfE publishes these in several releases through the year.
• DfE Applications & Offers dataRefreshed 28 September 2026 · annually · next 20 Jun 2027 — school-level applications and offers statistics for England: first preferences, total applications, and offers by preference. Released annually in June by DfE.
• DfE Open Academies & TrustsRefreshed 5 days ago · monthly · next 26 Nov 2026 — the live list of open academies, free schools, UTCs, and studio schools, plus their parent multi-academy trust. Underpins the Trust & Governance panel on school profiles.
• DfE School Census facetsRefreshed 12 days ago · several releases a year · next 1 Nov 2026 — per-school absence, exclusions, workforce, pupil characteristics, and headline census counts. DfE publishes these in several releases through the year.
• DfE Financial Benchmarking & Insights (FBIT)Refreshed 11 days ago · annually · next 2 Mar 2027 — per-school income, expenditure, reserves and headline financial-health metrics. Released annually by the DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking service.
• DfE SEND censusRefreshed 22 September 2026 · annually · next 1 Jul 2027 — pupils with special educational needs and EHCPs by school.
• School funding: TRI eligibilityRefreshed 1 September 2026 · annually · next 1 Sep 2027 — schools where eligible teachers can receive DfE’s Targeted Retention Incentive payment (formerly the Levelling Up Premium).

Source: Department for Education. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Crown Copyright.

Ofsted

• Ofsted Management InformationRefreshed 5 days ago · monthly · next 17 Nov 2026 — inspection outcomes for state-funded schools including legacy grades (Outstanding to Inadequate) and the new report card grades introduced from November 2025. Bulk MI released monthly by Ofsted.
• Ofsted Early Years RegisterRefreshed 6 days ago · monthly · next 25 Nov 2026 — registered childcare providers including nurseries and childminders, with inspection outcomes and registered places.
• Ofsted historical & predecessor inspectionsRefreshed 14 days ago · monthly · next 17 Nov 2026 — monthly back-fill, run with the Ofsted MI load, of Ofsted reports for predecessor URNs so the “Inspection Story” timeline on each school profile includes the pre-conversion academy history. Covers 2005–present.
• Ofsted Parent ViewRefreshed 16 days ago · monthly · next 15 Nov 2026 — Parent View results for most English schools: ten of the Parent View questions, plus the number of responses.

Source: Ofsted. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Crown Copyright. School Atlas is not endorsed by or affiliated with Ofsted.

Estyn (Wales)

• Estyn Inspection ReportsRefreshed 4 days ago · monthly · next 17 Nov 2026 — inspection outcomes for schools in Wales. Estyn is the education and training inspectorate for Wales. Since 2022, Estyn no longer assigns summative grades; inspection reports provide descriptive evaluations of school quality. Follow-up status (e.g. special measures, significant improvement) is tracked.

Source: Estyn (estyn.gov.wales). Contains public sector information. School Atlas is not endorsed by or affiliated with Estyn.

Welsh Government (StatsWales)

• Address List of Schools and Schools Census (PLASC)Refreshed 20 days ago · annually · next 1 Mar 2027 — official register of Welsh maintained schools, including addresses, medium of instruction, phase, and pupil counts. Welsh Government data is Crown Copyright and reproduced under the Open Government Licence v3.0. PLASC is released each summer.
• Stats Wales per-school PLASC datasetsRefreshed 6 days ago · 3x per year · next 10 Nov 2026 — we draw the following per-school facets from the Stats Wales v1 data API and refresh them after each annual PLASC release:
  • Pupils in maintained schools by school, local authority, sector, type, school governance and school language (dataset 2018f447) — statutory governance category (community / foundation / voluntary aided / voluntary controlled), Welsh Government 2022 statutory Welsh-medium category (welsh / dual / transitional / bilingual / English-medium with significant Welsh / English) and each school’s pupil headcount: everyone on roll, from nursery to sixth form. That is the figure we show as a Welsh school’s pupils, counted the same way as England and Northern Ireland.
  • Pupils aged 5–15 eligible for free school meals by school (dataset 327c8825) — per-school FSM eligibility counts and percentages. Counts are rounded by Welsh Government to the nearest 5 to protect pupil confidentiality. Cells flagged [c] (confidential), [t] (rounded total only), .., :, * or x are treated as “not available” rather than zero.
  • Pupils in maintained schools with additional learning or special educational needs by school (dataset 18db6ba2) — per-school Additional Learning Needs (ALN) counts and percentages under the Welsh Government’s Additional Learning Needs and Education Tribunal (Wales) Act 2018. Where the published percentage is suppressed but a count is available, we compute it from the school’s PLASC headcount and label the source as “computed”.
  • Pupils in maintained schools by school and year group (dataset 9b0d8f7a) — per-school pupil counts broken down by Reception, Year 1–14 and the two nursery years. Used to render the year-group breakdown card.
  • Pupils in maintained schools aged 5 or over by school and ethnic background (dataset 4c96d2a8) — per-school pupil counts by Welsh PLASC ethnic background category. Welsh PLASC does not break Irish out of White British and combines Gypsy, Roma and Traveller into one category; the categories on the school profile reflect that.
  • Delegated school budgets and outturn expenditure (dataset dd52942a) — per-school planned budget share, total expenditure, total LEA resources and reserves carried forward, in £ thousand. Suppressed cells are treated as “not available” rather than zero. The dataset uses a separate Welsh-Government LA numbering scheme (5xx) to PLASC; we map the two using a hand-curated 22-row table verified empirically against Stats Wales 2024–25 school names, so a school’s finance row joins to its PLASC profile via the same 4–digit establishment number.
  • PLASC summary data by school (pupils aged 5 to 15 in primary, middle or secondary schools) (dataset eb697e0e) — the number of pupils aged 5 to 15, by male / female, in primary, middle and secondary schools. It leaves out nursery, reception and sixth-form pupils and special schools, so it is smaller than a school’s total. We keep its multi-year series to show how that count has moved over time.

Source: Welsh Government / Llywodraeth Cymru — Stats Wales (StatsCymru). Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Crown Copyright. School Atlas is not endorsed by or affiliated with the Welsh Government.

Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW)

• CIW data extract — registration details and inspection ratings for childcare settings in Wales, from CIW’s public data extract of registered care services.

Source: Care Inspectorate Wales. Reproduced from the publisher’s public service, with attribution. School Atlas is not endorsed by or affiliated with CIW.

HM Inspectorate of Education (Scotland)

• HMIE Inspection ReportsRefreshed today · daily · next 1 Nov 2026 — school inspection reports for Scottish schools, published by His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Education (inspections formerly sat within Education Scotland). Schools are evaluated under the “How good is our school?” framework; early learning & childcare settings under the joint HMIE/Care Inspectorate Quality Improvement Framework — both graded Excellent to Unsatisfactory against quality indicators.
• Scottish Government School Contact Details & StatisticsRefreshed 30 days ago · quarterly · next 1 Jan 2027 — official register of Scottish schools and Pupil Census data (roll, pupils by stage P1–P7 and S1–S6, FSM, SIMD distribution, teacher numbers). Senior-phase attainment and leaver destinations come per school from statistics.gov.scot. Achievement of CfE Levels (ACEL) is published by the Scottish Government at local-authority level only, so we do not hold it against individual schools.

Source: HM Inspectorate of Education and the Scottish Government. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Crown Copyright. School Atlas is not endorsed by or affiliated with either body.

Care Inspectorate (Scotland)

• Care Inspectorate datastore — registration details and grades for early learning and childcare settings in Scotland (“Daycare of Children” services). We also read earlier editions of the datastore for inspection history.

Source: the Care Inspectorate. Reproduced from the publisher’s public service, with attribution. School Atlas is not endorsed by or affiliated with the Care Inspectorate.

Education and Training Inspectorate (Northern Ireland)

• ETI Inspection ReportsRefreshed 6 days ago · monthly · next 15 Nov 2026 — inspection reports for schools in Northern Ireland. On 16 October 2026 we linked the published ETI report for 1,054 of the 1,596 Northern Ireland schools on our register, and held the inspection outcome for 68 of them.
• Department of Education (DE) Northern IrelandRefreshed 14 days ago · quarterly · next 1 Jan 2027 — official register of NI schools (including grant-aided integrated, Irish-medium, and independent schools), enrolment figures, management type, available places and transport.

Source: Education and Training Inspectorate and the Department of Education (Northern Ireland). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Crown Copyright. School Atlas is not endorsed by or affiliated with ETI or DE.

Companies House

Company registration details for independent schools run as limited companies, sourced from the Companies House API in a quarterly batch.Refreshed 26 days ago · quarterly · next 5 Jan 2027 Information from the Companies House public register, made available by Companies House under section 47 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. It is not published under the Open Government Licence.

Charity Commission & OSCR

Financial information for schools registered as charities, including income, expenditure, and reserves, sourced from the Charity Commission Register (England & Wales).Refreshed 6 days ago · quarterly · next 5 Jan 2027 For Scottish charities we use the OSCR register.Refreshed 6 days ago · quarterly · next 5 Jan 2027 Charity Commission register data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Crown Copyright.

© Crown Copyright and database right 2026. Contains information from the Scottish Charity Register supplied by the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator and licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0.

Local Authority Admissions Data

Borough-level admissions data including Published Admission Numbers (PAN), last distances offered, and oversubscription criteria is sourced from council publications across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.Refreshed 14 days ago · monthly · next 8 Nov 2026 The badge shows the latest run across the council admissions and catchment feeds. Local authority data is public sector information subject to the Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2015. Council PDFs are processed using AI-powered extraction to ensure consistent, structured data across all authorities regardless of publication format.

Across the years we hold, we have council admissions data from 218 local authorities with oversubscription criteria for at least one school, 133 with last-distance-offered figures and 186 with published admission numbers. For England we also use DfE’s school-level Applications & Offers data.

One council also publishes a machine-readable extract we take directly: Lincolnshire County Council open dataRefreshed 7 August 2026 · on-demand — a CSV of schools and their admissions details, from the council’s open data portal.

School Catchment Boundaries

Catchment and priority-area polygons shown on our maps are reproduced from councils’ published map services and admissions documents, and for some schools from the school’s or academy trust’s own admission arrangements. Boundaries are indicative — admission areas are determined each year by the admissions authority, and you should always confirm with the council or school. We gratefully acknowledge the following publishers. Where a publisher states a licence for the layer we use, it is shown beside its name.

• Bath and North East Somerset Council
• Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council
• Bracknell Forest Council — contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0
• Bradford Council
• Bristol City Council — contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights (Ordnance Survey licence number 100023406)
• Buckinghamshire Council
• Cambridgeshire County Council
• Cardiff Council
• Carmarthenshire County Council
• Cheshire East Council — contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0
• Cheshire West and Chester Council — contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0
• City of Doncaster Council
• City of York Council — contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0
• Conwy County Borough Council
• Cornwall Council
• Coventry City Council
• Cumberland Council
• Darlington Borough Council
• Derbyshire County Council — contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights (Ordnance Survey licence number AC0000805472)
• Devon County Council — contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights
• Dorset Council
• East Riding of Yorkshire Council
• East Sussex County Council
• Essex County Council
• Gateshead Council
• Gloucestershire County Council
• Hampshire County Council
• Herefordshire Council — contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v2.0
• Isle of Anglesey County Council
• Lancashire County Council
• Leeds City Council
• Leicestershire County Council
• London Borough of Barnet
• London Borough of Enfield
• London Borough of Hillingdon
• London Borough of Merton
• London Borough of Redbridge
• London Borough of Tower Hamlets
• Luton Borough Council
• Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council
• Middlesbrough Council
• Monmouthshire County Council
• Newport City Council
• Norfolk County Council — contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights (Ordnance Survey licence number 100019340)
• North East Lincolnshire Council
• North Tyneside Council
• North Yorkshire Council — Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights (Ordnance Survey licence number AC0000825864)
• Northumberland County Council — contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0
• Nottingham City Council — contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0
• Nottinghamshire County Council
• Oxfordshire County Council
• Pembrokeshire County Council
• Portsmouth City Council
• Powys County Council
• Reading Borough Council (Brighter Futures for Children)
• Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council — Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights (Ordnance Survey licence number 100019983)
• Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council
• Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead
• Rutland County Council
• Salford City Council
• Schools and academy trusts that publish their own catchment or priority areas in their admission arrangements, including Coastal Learning Partnership and Plymouth CAST
• Scottish councils (all 32) via the Improvement Service / spatialhub.scot
• Sheffield City Council
• Shropshire Council
• Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council
• Some Scottish councils' own map services, including Highland, Scottish Borders, Glasgow City and East Lothian
• Somerset Council
• South Gloucestershire Council
• South Tyneside Council
• Southampton City Council
• Southend-on-Sea City Council
• Staffordshire County Council — contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0
• Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council
• Stoke-on-Trent City Council
• Suffolk County Council
• Swindon Borough Council
• Torbay Council (data hosted by Devon County Council) — contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0
• Trafford Council
• Vale of Glamorgan Council
• Wandsworth Council
• Warwickshire County Council — contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v2.0
• West Berkshire Council
• West Northamptonshire Council
• Wiltshire Council — contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0
• Worcestershire County Council

Schools Awards & Accreditations

School Atlas aggregates publicly listed school accreditations from the following awarding bodies. In each case we fetch only the public directory, we respect robots.txt, and we store the awarding body's own source URL on every record.

• ArtsmarkRefreshed 14 days ago · annually · next 1 Sep 2027 — the creative quality standard for schools, awarded by Arts Council England. We ingest the public Artsmark settings directory (Silver / Gold / Platinum awardees).
• UNICEF UK Rights Respecting Schools Award (RRSA) — not shown at present. UNICEF UK's terms ask for written permission before its listings are used in a publication. We have asked, and will show the award again only with permission.
• Investor in PupilsRefreshed 14 days ago · annually · next 1 Sep 2027 — accredited schools listed in the Investor in Pupils public directory.
• Combined Cadet Force (CCF)Refreshed 1 September 2026 · annually · next 1 Sep 2027 — schools with a contingent, as listed on the CCF Association's website in March 2026. That list has not been refreshed since.

Sources: Arts Council England; Investor in Pupils; the CCF Association. School Atlas is not endorsed by or affiliated with any of these awarding bodies. Award data is reproduced as factual listings with attribution to each body's public directory.

Environment, Health & Safety

Public-register feeds that contextualise each school’s surroundings. All licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

• DEFRA air quality compliance assessment (CMAQ-Urban model, 2025)Refreshed 15 days ago · annually · next 1 Nov 2026 — modelled annual concentrations of NO₂, PM₂.₅ and PM₁₀ on a 1×1 km grid, joined to each school’s coordinate.
• FSA Food Hygiene RatingsRefreshed 3 days ago · weekly · next 4 Nov 2026 — hygiene ratings for schools that operate a registered kitchen: FSA Food Hygiene Rating Scheme ratings, and for Scottish schools Food Standards Scotland’s Food Hygiene Information Scheme results (Pass or Improvement Required).
• Environment Agency Flood Map for Planning (Rivers and Sea), Flood ZonesRefreshed 6 days ago · weekly · next 1 Nov 2026 — the national flood model published on 25 March 2025 and revised on 20 May 2026, read through the Environment Agency’s OGC API. We use it to flag school sites in Flood Zones 2 and 3. England only.
• NaPTAN public transport access pointsRefreshed 12 days ago · annually · next 1 Mar 2027 — bus, rail and tram stops in Great Britain near each school, from DfT’s National Public Transport Access Nodes, powering the Transport tab.
• Translink bus stop list (OpenDataNI) — bus stops in Northern Ireland, which NaPTAN does not cover.

Other sources shown on school pages

• data.police.uk — street-level recorded crime near schools in England and Wales. Open Government Licence v3.0.
• DfT road safety data (STATS19) — reported road collisions and casualties within 500 metres of each school in Great Britain, over five years of DfT’s road safety open data. Open Government Licence v3.0.
• MHCLG Energy Performance of Buildings register — energy certificates for school buildings. Open Government Licence v3.0.
• Sport England Active Places — sports facilities at and near schools in England. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). Contains Data © Sport England.
• DfE Teaching Vacancies — live vacancies that schools list on DfE’s Teaching Vacancies service. Open Government Licence v3.0.
• GIAS governance — chairs, governors, trustees and members of schools and academy trusts in England, from the GIAS governance download. Open Government Licence v3.0.
• Gender pay gap service — gender pay gap figures reported by academy trusts with 250 or more employees. Open Government Licence v3.0.

Listed Buildings & Heritage (4 nations)

Statutory listed-buildings registers, joined to schools that occupy listed sites. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

• National Heritage List for EnglandRefreshed 3 days ago · weekly · next 2 Nov 2026 — the official statutory list from Historic England.
• Cadw (Wales) listed buildingsRefreshed 24 September 2026 · paused — paused since 24 September 2026. The map service we read it from is closed to automated access by the publisher’s robots.txt, so Welsh listed-building details stay as they were on that date until we have a source we are allowed to read.
• Historic Environment ScotlandRefreshed 3 days ago · weekly · next 4 Nov 2026
• Historic Environment NIRefreshed 4 days ago · weekly · next 3 Nov 2026

Deprivation Indices (4 nations)

Each nation publishes its own Index of Multiple Deprivation on a ~4–5 year cycle. We join each school to the most recent published edition for its nation. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

• English Indices of Multiple Deprivation (IMD)Refreshed 15 days ago · on release — LSOA-level IMD-2019 / IMD-2025.
• Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation (WIMD)Refreshed 15 days ago · on release — LSOA-level WIMD-2019 / WIMD-2025.
• Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD)Refreshed 15 days ago · on release — Datazone-level SIMD-2020.
• NI Multiple Deprivation Measure (NIMDM)Refreshed 15 days ago · on release — SOA-level NIMDM-2017.

Mapping & Geocoding

Stadia Maps, OpenMapTiles & OpenStreetMapLive API

Map data is provided by OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Data Commons Open Database Licence (ODbL). The basemap tiles we render are served by Stadia Maps (Alidade Smooth and Alidade Smooth Dark), built from OpenMapTiles. Tiles are fetched live; we do not cache or ingest OSM data.

© Stadia Maps © OpenMapTiles © OpenStreetMap contributors. Data available under the ODbL.

ONS Postcode Lookup & Postcodes.io

We load the ONS National Statistics Postcode Lookup (NSPL), which links each postcode to its area codes.Refreshed 19 days ago · quarterly · next 8 Dec 2026 Postcode lookups on the site use Postcodes.io, which is built on ONS postcode data.Live API GB postcode data is licensed under the Open Government Licence.

Contains OS data © Crown Copyright and database right. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail Copyright and database right. Contains National Statistics data © Crown Copyright and database right.

Ordnance Survey Open UPRN

Most school sites carry a Unique Property Reference Number matched from the OS Open UPRN dataset. We no longer ingest or refresh OS Open UPRN itself — the UPRNs already matched are retained, and newer schools take their UPRN from the DfE GIAS record.Editorial Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Data from School and Council Websites

Some data on School Atlas is collected automatically from school and council websites, some of it read by AI, by the crawler described below. Schools that have claimed their profile can also submit details. This includes:

• School feesRefreshed 4 days ago · biannual · next 1 Jan 2027 — sourced from individual school websites by a polite scraper that respects each school’s robots.txt. Fee figures are factual data presented in our own format. Always verify current fees directly with the school.
• Extracurricular activitiesFrom websites — read from school websites, or submitted directly by claimed-profile schools.
• FacilitiesFrom websites — read from school websites, or submitted directly by claimed-profile schools.
• Term datesFrom websites — from published local-authority term dates, and from independent schools’ own websites.
• Wraparound care — breakfast clubs, after-school clubs, and holiday provision, including DfE’s list of schools in its free breakfast clubs programme (Open Government Licence v3.0).
• Awards and accolades — from the awarding bodies’ public lists (see above), and some submitted by claimed-profile schools.
• House systemsFrom websites — sourced from school websites.
• Social media linksFrom websites — public social media profile URLs as published by schools.

This data is presented for informational purposes. While we take care to ensure accuracy, information may become outdated. If you are a school and notice an error, please contact us and we will correct it promptly.

School-Provided Enrichment Data

Schools that have claimed their profile on School Atlas can provide additional enrichment data directly, including facilities, notable alumni, house systems, extracurricular activities, and other details. This information is submitted by authorised school representatives.

Notable AlumniEditorial

Information about notable alumni is limited to public figures whose school attendance is documented in publicly available sources such as Wikipedia. We only include individuals who meet the following criteria:

• The individual is a public figure (e.g. politician, author, sportsperson, scientist)
• Their attendance at the school is documented in a verifiable public source
• We link to the relevant Wikipedia article for verification

We process this data under the legitimate interest lawful basis (UK GDPR Article 6(1)(f)). Our Legitimate Interest Assessment is available for review. If you are listed and wish to be removed, please contact us.

University Destinations

University destination data is sourced from the Department for Education's Destination Measures, published via Explore Education Statistics, plus supplementary per-school scrapes of state and independent school websites for “leavers” pages.Refreshed 12 days ago · annually · next 16 Nov 2026 This covers state-funded schools (DfE-bulk) and is back-filled for independents via polite per-school scrapers. We present this as aggregated statistics (e.g. percentage attending Russell Group universities). DfE destination data is used under the Open Government Licence v3.0; figures from school websites are the schools’ own published figures.

AI-Written Text

Some text on school pages is written by AI: a summary of the latest inspection report, written from the published report, and a short summary of the school, written from the data we hold for it. These summaries are labelled as AI-generated or AI-assisted where they appear, and the inspection summary links the full report.

Sources we deliberately do NOT ingest

Some sources we have evaluated and chosen not to ingest, for compliance or data-shape reasons:

• ISI (Independent Schools Inspectorate) — ISI’s public site disallows bulk scraping and its reports are not under the Open Government Licence, so we do not load ISI reports in bulk. Pages for schools ISI inspects link to ISI’s report search.
• ETI grades from PDF reports — ETI publishes most inspection reports as PDFs without a structured grade field, and its robots.txt closes PDFs to automated access, so we do not extract grades from them. Where ETI publishes a report as a web page, we read the outcome from that page.

Our Crawler & Opt-Out

When we need to fetch a page or file from a public website, our crawler identifies itself transparently with the following User-Agent string:

SchoolAtlas/1.0 (+https://schoolatlas.co.uk/data-sources)

We follow these rules on every request:

• We fetch and respect each site's robots.txt before any request, including Allow, Disallow, and Crawl-delay directives.
• We do not spoof a browser User-Agent. If a site blocks our transparent UA, we treat that as intent and do not bypass it.
• We rate-limit ourselves and favour official bulk downloads and APIs over per-page scraping wherever possible.
• We only fetch publicly accessible pages — no authenticated areas, no paywalled content, no membership directories.

Opt out: If you operate a website and would prefer that School Atlas not include or fetch your school's pages, email us at data@schoolatlas.co.uk with the domain(s) and/or URN(s) you want excluded. We will add them to our crawler's skip-list within 7 days and confirm in writing. You can also block us via robots.txt by disallowing the SchoolAtlas user-agent — we honour it automatically.

Your Data

For information about how we collect, use, and protect your personal data as a user of School Atlas, please see our Privacy Policy.

Corrections & Takedown Requests

We are committed to data accuracy and respecting intellectual property rights. If you believe any data on School Atlas is inaccurate, out of date, or infringes your rights, please contact us at hello@schoolatlas.co.uk and we will investigate and take appropriate action promptly.

Licence Summary

See these sources aggregated into a live national picture: The State of UK Schools — Ofsted ratings distribution & the LA league.