FINDING THE BEST SCHOOL: How our Locrating tool can help your search

Choosing the right school for your child is one of life’s most important decisions.

It requires careful thought about issues such as academic reputation, culture, values, physical environment, extracurricular activities and pastoral care.

Understanding the local area around the school, and what the daily journey from home will be like, are equally part of the mix of essential considerations.

Here in Hampshire and across the country, autumn is an especially busy time for those parents and carers researching school options.

In our county, the deadline for applying for a secondary school place to start in September 2026 is fast coming up: 31 October 2025.

As the clock ticks, we see more and more visitors to our website checking out our embedded Locrating tool.

This provides a handy and trustworthy visual context for a proposed house purchase including the distances to nearby schools, their Ofsted ratings and a range of other Department for Education datasets on the catchment area.

Locrating is a really useful addition to our Property Search pages where we invite you to ‘Start your search today’.

Once you are on the page of a particular property you are interested in, you’ll see the right-hand ‘Nearby’ tab, which then takes you to ‘Schools’.

We are pleased to partner with Locrating on this plug-in feature, one that proves more and more popular each year.

Locrating is one of a range of resources on our website to help you whether you want to buy or rent a property. It enables you to investigate a local area, and its schools, without leaving the comfort of your armchair.

As well as helping buyers and renters, Locrating is also an ideal platform for sellers and landlords to showcase the geographic context of their properties and highlight the benefits.

To begin your property search, visit https://www.chinneckshaw.co.uk/property-search/.

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