Primary school intake areas

This map shows 'catchment areas' for a selection of primary schools in the London Borough of Waltham Forest. There a number of reasons why the map may be inaccurate (see the notes below) so it shouldn't be relied upon as a guide to whether any application would be successful.

The true catchment area is not a circle; a distance is identified as the furthest distance under which a pupil was accepted to the school under the 'distance' criteria. Pupils are also admitted under separate criteria - such as Special Needs, or the presence of a sibling in the school - in practice some of these pupils might live further away. For some schools, membership of a religious community is also an entry criterion.

The map allows some simple exploration to made of extent to which 'parental choice' is inequitable or illusory. In some areas, a prospective student will have a choice of more schools than in other places.

Map layers

Optional layers are enabled via the layer control at the top right of the map.

Census data

Census data: Office for National Statistics, 2011 Census: Aggregate data (England and Wales) [computer file]. UK Data Service Census Support. Downloaded from: InFuse. This information is licensed under the terms of the Open Government Licence [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/2].

House price data

House price data: Land Registry via London data store

Schools

Tick the relevant box to show the 'catchment area' on the map.

Table footnotes

Notes

The colours of the map pins and the associated circles are randomly assigned. If any particular pin is too dark, then the page can be re-loaded in order to assign new colours Not all schools are included on the map - sixth form colleges and some specialist units are omitted Location data have been taken from Oftsed and other sources; the locations used here may vary slightly from those used to allocate students to schools. Some schools (those which are not over-subscribed) do not have a distance cut-off The distance data is taken from "Moving on - a guide to applying for a secondary school place for September 2012" published by the London Borough of Waltham Forest. Distance data for 2012/13 admissions taken from information circulated by LBWF with results of student applications.

Sources

The distance data were taken from these sources: