Context, not league tables

Published data about schools is spread across a dozen releases from the Department for Education, Ofsted, the Office for National Statistics and others, each with its own format, timetable and caveats. School Intel brings it together for every one of England’s 21,959 state-funded schools, and sets each figure beside the school’s local authority and England, with its period and its source.

It is built for governors, trustees, school leaders, local authority and trust officers, journalists, researchers and anyone curious. Because it is public, parents will find it too, which is why nothing on it ranks schools or labels them.

Who built it

School Intel was designed and built by Joshua Mangas, as an independent project: free to use, with no adverts, sign-in or tracking. It draws on his earlier work on school risk methods, which is demonstrated on invented schools on How the method works.

How it is made

• A weekly pipeline fetches every source directly from its publisher, checks the result, and publishes it only if every check passes.
• School pages are generated on demand from compact files and cached until the next release.
• The map is drawn from the Office for National Statistics’ boundaries and OpenStreetMap, served as vector tiles by the site and its own file storage, so it stays sharp at every zoom and sends nothing to third parties.
• Everything is checked automatically on every release: no scores or personal data in the files, published figures reproduced exactly, and every school placed in the right area.

See the methodology and sources, or report a correction.