Local authorities

Schools grouped by council area. It’s the local authority you apply to for a school place, even for most academies.

• Barking and Dagenham 62 schools
• Barnet 133 schools
• Barnsley 92 schools
• Bath and North East Somerset 80 schools
• Bedford 75 schools
• Bexley 84 schools
• Birmingham 441 schools
• Blackburn with Darwen 77 schools
• Blackpool 43 schools
• Bolton 129 schools
• Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole 100 schools
• Bracknell Forest 38 schools
• Bradford 209 schools
• Brent 88 schools
• Brighton and Hove 63 schools
• Bristol 154 schools
• Bromley 100 schools
• Buckinghamshire 234 schools
• Bury 84 schools
• Calderdale 99 schools
• Cambridgeshire 268 schools
• Camden 57 schools
• Central Bedfordshire 129 schools
• Cheshire East 157 schools
• Cheshire West and Chester 163 schools
• City of London 1 schools
• Cornwall 280 schools
• Coventry 118 schools
• Croydon 127 schools
• Cumberland 172 schools
• Darlington 42 schools
• Derby 107 schools
• Derbyshire 420 schools
• Devon 372 schools
• Doncaster 128 schools
• Dorset 158 schools
• Dudley 107 schools
• Durham 259 schools
• Ealing 94 schools
• East Riding of Yorkshire 149 schools
• East Sussex 188 schools
• Enfield 98 schools
• Essex 557 schools
• Gateshead 84 schools
• Gloucestershire 298 schools
• Greenwich 88 schools
• Hackney 73 schools
• Halton 66 schools
• Hammersmith and Fulham 59 schools
• Hampshire 528 schools
• Haringey 82 schools
• Harrow 60 schools
• Hartlepool 39 schools
• Havering 82 schools
• Herefordshire 99 schools
• Herefordshire, County of 1 schools
• Hertfordshire 529 schools
• Hillingdon 97 schools
• Hounslow 76 schools
• Isle of Wight 47 schools
• Isles of Scilly 1 schools
• Islington 62 schools
• Kensington and Chelsea 39 schools
• Kent 597 schools
• Kingston upon Hull 96 schools
• Kingston upon Thames 52 schools
• Kirklees 182 schools
• Knowsley 61 schools
• Lambeth 86 schools
• Lancashire 626 schools
• Leeds 278 schools
• Leicester 113 schools
• Leicestershire 287 schools
• Lewisham 86 schools
• Lincolnshire 360 schools
• Liverpool 171 schools
• Luton 70 schools
• Manchester 188 schools
• Medway 103 schools
• Merton 56 schools
• Middlesbrough 57 schools
• Milton Keynes 114 schools
• Newcastle upon Tyne 100 schools
• Newham 100 schools
• Norfolk 418 schools
• North East Lincolnshire 64 schools
• North Lincolnshire 80 schools
• North Northamptonshire 144 schools
• North Somerset 80 schools
• North Tyneside 79 schools
• North Yorkshire 350 schools
• Northumberland 165 schools
• Nottingham 105 schools
• Nottinghamshire 344 schools
• Oldham 107 schools
• Oxfordshire 308 schools
• Peterborough 83 schools
• Plymouth 98 schools
• Portsmouth 61 schools
• Reading 61 schools
• Redbridge 79 schools
• Redcar and Cleveland 59 schools
• Richmond upon Thames 60 schools
• Rochdale 90 schools
• Rotherham 123 schools
• Rutland 20 schools
• Salford 100 schools
• Sandwell 124 schools
• Sefton 103 schools
• Sheffield 178 schools
• Shropshire 151 schools
• Slough 51 schools
• Solihull 83 schools
• Somerset 266 schools
• South Gloucestershire 117 schools
• South Tyneside 62 schools
• Southampton 76 schools
• Southend on Sea 52 schools
• Southwark 101 schools
• St Helens 70 schools
• Staffordshire 412 schools
• Stockport 115 schools
• Stockton-on-Tees 78 schools
• Stoke-on-Trent 92 schools
• Suffolk 321 schools
• Sunderland 116 schools
• Surrey 397 schools
• Sutton 64 schools
• Swindon 90 schools
• Tameside 99 schools
• Telford and Wrekin 77 schools
• Thurrock 56 schools
• Torbay 43 schools
• Tower Hamlets 92 schools
• Trafford 91 schools
• Wakefield 141 schools
• Walsall 122 schools
• Waltham Forest 78 schools
• Wandsworth 82 schools
• Warrington 88 schools
• Warwickshire 251 schools
• West Berkshire 83 schools
• West Northamptonshire 188 schools
• West Sussex 286 schools
• Westminster 52 schools
• Westmorland and Furness 147 schools
• Wigan 127 schools
• Wiltshire 234 schools
• Windsor and Maidenhead 66 schools
• Wirral 125 schools
• Wokingham 72 schools
• Wolverhampton 111 schools
• Worcestershire 243 schools
• York 63 schools

Ofsted data as at 30 September 2026, school details from Get Information about Schools, 26 October 2026.