About this website
Privacy and school data
Who runs this site
UK School Map is maintained by Mindmap Technology Limited.
We do not collect or store personal data about you. There are no accounts or sign-ups, we never ask for your name, email or contact details, and your searches and shortlist stay in your browser (a postcode you enter is looked up by your browser and never sent to us). The third-party services described below, which deliver the site, its map and any optional analytics or advertising, receive standard network information such as your IP address when your browser connects to them, and handle it under their own privacy policies.
For questions about privacy, email salil.joshi@mindmap.technology. If you have a data protection concern, you can also contact the Information Commissioner's Office.
Your research
School searches and filters run in your browser. This version has no accounts, saved profiles or application forms. Hosting providers receive normal network requests when you visit a page.
Finding schools near a postcode
If you enter a postcode on the map, your browser looks it up with postcodes.io (a free service using Office for National Statistics data) to find its location. Distances are then worked out in your browser. We do not receive or store your postcode. It is kept only in this browser tab until you close it or press Clear, and it is never put in page addresses or sent to analytics.
Optional analytics
If analytics is enabled on this deployment, we ask before loading Google Analytics. Accepting allows page usage measurement. Rejecting leaves analytics unloaded. You can change your choice using the Cookie choices button; the preference is saved in your browser for up to 180 days. Clearing browser storage resets it.
The analytics configuration removes query strings and URL fragments from the page address it reports. We do not send school search text to Analytics. Google receives network information when its analytics code is loaded.
The map
The map requests its background map style, tiles and fonts from OpenFreeMap, using OpenStreetMap data. These requests include the network information needed to deliver the map, but not your searches or filters. Each school has its own page on this site. Links to school websites, official registers and Wikipedia open those external services, which have their own privacy practices.
Reporting an error
The "Report an error" form on a school page does not ask for your name or email. What you type is saved for review as an issue in our GitHub repository, so please don't include personal details. Cloudflare Turnstile checks that the form is sent by a person, and Cloudflare counts reports per IP address to stop floods; we don't store your IP address.
School information
School facts come from official registers: the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools for England, and the Department of Education's institution data for Northern Ireland. Both are published under the Open Government Licence. Every school page shows the source and the last-checked date for each section, and marks anything we do not have as "Not yet available".
Records marked unverified were carried over from the original grammar school map and have not yet been matched to an official register. Their coordinates and admissions details may be wrong. A location that falls in the wrong country is withheld rather than shown. Confirm details with the school or the local authority before making decisions, and use "Report an error" on a school page if something is wrong.