What's New

New tool: UK Year-Group Advisor for international families. Pick your origin from 14 countries (India, Hong Kong, Nigeria, Pakistan, USA, Philippines, Ukraine, Zimbabwe, South Africa, China — plus the four UK nations for cross-border moves), enter your child's age and arrival month, and get the likely UK Year placement and the highest-priority transition risk to plan around. Pro adds a 12-month risk timeline, save up to 5 child profiles, and a one-page PDF summary. Plus 11 country-specific origin guides and a foundational UK Private School System guide that explains the terminology (independent / private / "public school"), what HMC / GSA / IAPS membership signals, and where to go next for fees, admissions, boarding and scholarships.

Pro Admissions Distance Checker rewritten. Drop your home postcode against the latest distance-of-last-offer data and get a plain-English verdict for every nearby school: catchment-confirmed, last-offer distance, lookup-required, transfer-test (Northern Ireland), or fees-apply. Plus: bilingual badges added on every Welsh-medium (Cymraeg), Gaelic-medium (Gàidhlig), and Irish-medium (Gaeilge) school profile.

Three new dimensions on every school profile. Place & Setting: see if a school sits in a conservation area, alongside a listed building, or inside a national park — full 4-nation heritage join across Historic England, Cadw (Wales), Historic Environment Scotland, and Historic Environment NI. Air quality: annual NO₂, PM2.5, and PM10 readings from DEFRA's UK-AIR Pollution Climate Mapping mapped to each school's location. Live academy openings: newly-opening academies and free schools now appear within a month of opening, with conversion announcements and predecessor school links.

Source transparency on every fact. Every number on a school profile now traces back to a specific source URL with a verified-on date — hover any data point to see exactly where it came from and when it was last checked. Every AI-drafted guide, blog post, and AI-extracted figure (fees, admissions distances, university destinations) now shows the AI byline plus the source-page link, so you always know what was machine-extracted vs human-verified.

AI Advisor and Ofsted Report Card Decoder both live. Ask any question about any school and get a sourced answer in seconds — the new AI Advisor reads every inspection, dataset, and admissions rule on the platform and tailors each reply to the schools on your shortlist. Plus: plug in any grade from Ofsted's November 2025 framework and the Report Card Decoder explains what it actually means for your child, in plain English.

15 years of historical Ofsted inspection data now live. See every school's full inspection trajectory back to 2005 (108,000+ records covering KS2, GCSE, and A-level performance from 2010–2025) — with framework-aware grade comparison so you can read the long-term trend properly through Ofsted's changing inspection regimes.

Three new free tools launched. The School Type Quiz: answer 7 questions and find out which type of school might suit your child best — state, grammar, faith, independent, or specialist. The Admissions Appeal Quiz: answer 8 questions to assess whether you have grounds for an admissions appeal and how strong your case is. The School Timeline: enter your child's date of birth and see every key admissions deadline, application date, and transition point through their school years.

55 in-depth parent guides now live. SEND, faith schools, appeals, moving home, sixth form, the 11+, fees and bursaries, boarding, EAL, home education — each guide carries worked examples and step-by-step timelines. Plus: 681 borough-specific ranking pages added, covering top primaries, top secondaries, grammar schools, special schools, and sixth-form options for every UK borough with sufficient data.

Pro subscriptions are now live. £3.99/month or £29.99/year — instant access to all premium features including the Pro Admissions Distance Checker, full league tables, unlimited AI School Matcher, the year-group-advisor 12-month timeline, child profiles, and downloadable PDF summaries. The free tier remains rich — Pro adds depth for families making real decisions.

Three platform-wide upgrades. AI School Matcher: answer five questions about your priorities and get personalised school recommendations scored to your preferences. Travel-time map isochrones: the explorer map now shows how far you can travel in 10, 20, or 30 minutes by walking, cycling, or driving from any postcode. Borough area summaries: every borough page now opens with key education metrics compared against national averages so you can see local strengths and gaps at a glance.