Mockup — proposed redesign of /compare. All figures are live production data for three real schools (2024/25 results, 2026/27 admissions round). England averages for test results are official DfE figures; other benchmarks are state-school averages computed from our dataset.
Three schools side by side — inspection results, academics, admissions and community, each anchored against the England average so you can tell at a glance what's typical and what stands out.
The short version — each row below is explained in its own section further down.
Ofsted is the schools inspectorate. It stopped giving a single overall grade in September 2024; inspections between then and November 2025 kept the area-by-area judgements without an overall grade, and from November 2025 new inspections produce a report card rating each area of school life on a five-point scale (Exceptional · Strong standard · Expected standard · Attention needed · Urgent improvement). A report card and an older overall grade aren't directly comparable — Plumcroft's report card below is an illustrative example of the new format, as no school in our dataset has one yet. (Ofsted's "Expected standard" rating is unrelated to the KS2 "expected standard" test measure further down this page.)
Results from national tests and teacher assessments at the end of Year 6 (2024/25) — writing is assessed by teachers, not tested. Each line runs from 0–100%; the grey tick marks the England average, so dots to its right are above average.
The strips show the 100–120 window of the full 80–120 scaled-score range; 100 is the expected standard, and the strip widens if a school averages below it. England ticks for grammar, punctuation & spelling and science aren't in our dataset yet, and the scaled-score England ticks are indicative — official DfE figures for all of these will be loaded before launch.
From the most recent admissions round (September 2026 entry). "First choice" means families who ranked the school top of their application form — officially a "first preference". Schools never see your ranking: places are decided only by the school's admission criteria, so listing a school lower down never hurts your chances. These are National Offer Day offers — waiting lists and appeals can change the final intake.
The school's community, from the latest school census (2025/26). England averages are shown for context — there's no "right" number here.
The full year-by-year explorer — every measure from the current compare page lives on here, grouped, each with its England-average line. Three measures are wired up in this mockup; the rest are shown to convey the catalogue.
Sources: DfE Compare School Performance (KS2 results), Ofsted inspection outcomes, DfE school admissions data, school census — all from datasets SchoolCompare already collects. England averages for test results are the official DfE national figures; benchmarks for free school meals, language, SEN, school size and disadvantaged pupils' results are computed across all state schools in our dataset. Following DfE practice, figures based on 5 or fewer pupils are suppressed and shown as "no data". This is a static mockup: tooltips and "Add school" are illustrative, and Plumcroft's Ofsted report card is a made-up example of the November 2025 format (its real latest inspection is Good, June 2023) — no school in our dataset has a report card yet.