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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

We've been using Locrating extensively in the past few months while exploring where to move to with our young family. The site made it super easy to compare schools (both primary and secondary) and se... See more

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I cannot recommend Locrating enough. We used their platform to narrow down which schools to tour and to identify which state schools were truly worth exploring. The depth of educational statistics... See more

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I've found this to be a really valuable service, it has helped us get a much clearer idea about schools and catchment areas which obviously helps when you've a property budget. It's enabled us to prio... See more

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Subscribed for about six months while moving house. Used Chrome plugin for Rightmove and it was pretty seamless - much easier than tracking down the various data websites for schools, society and envi... See more

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Locrating is a great product

Locrating is a great product. It provides a clear and comprehensive way of getting information on nurseries, schools and the local housing market.

May 15, 2021
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Hi Chris, many thanks for taking the time to leave a review, it's much appreciated! I'm really pleased you found the site helpful. Kind regards, Lewis

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

This app was really insightful and useful!

This app was really insightful and helpful whilst we were considering moving back to the UK with our children. We ended up moving to a different country but would definitely sign up again if / when our plans change later. I highly recommend the app. The huge amount of information on schools we were considering was extremely helpful and meant we could have made a very informed decision on a school and potential properties very easily, doing a lot of groundwork at the drop of a hat, before even entering the UK.

May 15, 2021
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Hi Pea Pea, many thanks for taking the time to leave a review, it's much appreciated! I'm really pleased you found the site helpful even though you ended up not returning to the UK. Kind regards, Lewis

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Excellent tool for finding schools

Excellent tool for finding schools. Their free service is already handy, then I subscribed a paid account on my friend's recommendations.
The paid account is fantastic, I can find the information I want easily and make comparisons of different schools easily.

May 8, 2021
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Hi Michael, many thanks for taking the time to leave a review, it's much appreciated! I'm really pleased you found the site helpful. Kind regards, Lewis

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Amazing school finding tool

Amazing website. The information they provide is incredible, I almost became obsessed with it when looking for a new house! Boring my wife with oversubscription percentages and progress scores for each school we were looking at. The whole of the website is really nicely set out, super easy to use and packed full of useful information. I did actually find the membership option useful as well to get that extra level of detail.

May 6, 2021
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Hi Ben, many thanks for taking the time to leave a review, it's much appreciated. Kind regards, Lewis

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Fantastic!

Fantastic, easy to use and insightful! Has made school searching 100x easier!

May 5, 2021
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Hi Sonya, many thanks for taking the time to leave a review, it's much appreciated. Kind regards, Lewis

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Great tool for parents to narrow down…

Great tool for parents to narrow down selections and get to know useful school info quickly. Amazing features and smooth responds even showing tremendous amount of data effectively. Highly recommended for all parents!

May 5, 2021
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Hi Victor, many thanks for taking the time to leave a review, it's much appreciated. Kind regards, Lewis

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Great resource

We are moving house within our local area and I used locating.com for guidance on schools and catchment areas. Lewis was incredibly responsive when I had a query and I discovered the site has way more information than I realised a day before my subscription ran out - not to worry I'll subscribe again when you upload the 20/21 data!

April 27, 2021
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Hi Kristina, many thanks for your review, it's much appreciated! I'm really pleased you found the site useful and best of luck with the school application. Kind regards, Lewis

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Go Locrating .. useful insights at your disposal

This is a very good site for those who want to rely on hard work done by the company run by parents like us who did their homework for their own kids and used the ecosystem data and knowledge and brought out the insights that can be used to make informed decisions for your next school and home alike

The support team is very responsive and even delivered blazingly fast a new feature on request. I felt like being heard after a long time

It's worth giving the membership a try. You don't have to buy expensive licence fee here.

April 23, 2021
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Hi Vishal, many thanks for your review, it's much appreciated! Your idea of a button that takes you from schools in your shortlist to schools on the map, was a great one and we're always keen to improve the site in any way we can, so thank you for the suggestion. Kind regards, Lewis

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Super helpful

I am planning a move to the SE of England, and the website really helped me to chose my location. A master class in data management. Far and away the most useful tool of its sort.

April 22, 2021
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Hi Rob, many thanks for your review, it's much appreciated! I'm really pleased you found the site helpful! Kind regards, Lewis

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

A parents friendly tool

Locrating helped me a lot, I would recommend it to everyone.

April 19, 2021
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Many thanks for the review Alex, it is much appreciated! I'm pleased you found the site helpful. Kind regards, Lewis

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Perfect tool to search for schools

The perfect tool to search for schools! Has all the information in one place and it’s easy to use. I love it!

April 14, 2021
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Many thanks for the review, it's much appreciated. I'm really pleased you love the site and thanks for taking the time to provide feedback. Kind regards, Lewis

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Nice website, awesome data

Nice website and good information. The information is presented well but you do need to spend 5mins reading the "how to page" to understand it all, there is so much there. its all explained well though and well worth the money .

Locrating more than welcome to contact me and I'll explain more

April 12, 2021
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Hi Angelo, many thanks for the review, is it greatly appreciated. I'm pleased you like the site.
Kind regards, Lewis

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Very helpful

April 11, 2021
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Hi Amaryllis, thanks for your review, which is greatly appreciated! I'm pleased you are finding the site helpful. Kind regards, Lewis

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Brilliant app for schools & well worth the money

Locrating is an amazing app and it has given me valuable insights into schools for my children with all information in one place. I particularly liked the comparison view that it offers to compare all schools like for like.

I would highly recommend this app to anyone.

April 9, 2021
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Hi RKCUK, many thanks for the review, it's much appreciated! I'm really pleased you've found the site helpful and consider it value for money. Kind regards, Lewis

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Information

Able to get all the information I needed

April 8, 2021
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Hi Ransford, many thanks for the review, it's much appreciated! I'm pleased you've been able to find all the information you were after. Kind regards, Lewis

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Great, intuitive tool

We were faced with choosing schools for three children across different age groups, and with different parts of the country in mind. This site, with its clickable map and wealth of information, was so helpful in visualising our task and in quickly accessing key facts and figures. The menu functions allowed us to rule certain kinds of school in and out, and have that reflected in the map, which was also a great feature. We now have the schools sorted (at last...), so thanks Locrating!

April 2, 2021
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Thanks for the review Chris, it's much appreciated. I'm really pleased you found the site helpful.
Kind regards, Lewis

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Rated 3 out of 5 stars

The website is great to understand the…

The website is great to understand the performances of the school, however the catchment area seems a bit out of sync.

For example Tyntesfield Primary and Park Road Academy schools in Altrincham, Manchester, show the street Woodcote Road, Altrincham, WA14 to be in catchment, however on the trafford website, this address is not included in the catchment areas for these schools.
However for Broadheath Primary school, I am finding the opposite.

March 31, 2021
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Hi Hussain,

Thanks for your review. For Tyntesfield Primary and Park Road Academy schools in Altrincham we show the official last distance offered for the last two years taken from the Trafford Council website. We also show a history of where existing pupils live taken from the school census (what we call our catchment area indicators).

I can see that these schools have what are often called preferential or priority areas where applicants in these areas get priority over other applicants. On their site they call these areas their "catchment areas". Note that you don't have to live in these area to be offered a place, they are simply preferential areas, ensuring the school focuses primarily on local children.

Unfortunately the terminology is confusing as different schools use different wording for these areas; some say catchment area, others say preferential or priority area. But we do not show priority areas on Locrating. The work required to take these off school websites and plot them on the map is simply too enormous a task for us to undertake; we would need to manually check tens of thousands of websites. Hence we rely on showing last distance offered and where existing pupils live, which I would argue is more useful than the school's priority area anyway because these relate to actual offers made.

Hence when you compare the schools' catchment/priority/preferential areas from their websites with what we show (last distance offered and where existing pupils live) they are not going to match up as they are different things. But that does not mean that what we show is "out of sync". What we show comes from official sources and is accurate, but you do need to understand what it is that is being shown.

We always advise that users check school admissions policies very carefully for exactly this reason; so the fact you have found these priority areas is good as it means you can make an informed decision.

I hope that helps.

Kind regards,
Lewis

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Home mover for better schools

Very uselful when you look for a new property.
By searching for a good school, it gives you majority of the properties around the school, and whether the property is within the catchment area.
Something you can do on your own, but for a small price you are paying locrating, it saves you so much more time.

The site also provides so much more information about the schools, summarised into easy to understand sections and charts to help you make one of your most important decision in your life.

March 30, 2021
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Thanks for the review Vincent, it's much appreciated! I'm really pleased you found the site useful.
Kind regards, Lewis

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Super School Searching Tool

I'm glad that I find Locrating be my school searching tool before I landed UK. The data is completed with updated information. It's user friendly and consider customer needs with all helpful and real time information. I highly recommend you (if you really want to search a "RIGHT" school for your kids) to join/use Locrating.

March 29, 2021
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Thanks for the review Maria, it's much appreciated! I'm glad you found the site useful.
Kind regards, Lewis

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