Distance calculator as the crow flies for schools?

[Sol]

Hi

What's the best website to calculate the distance as the crow flies (straight line) for schools?

Thank you

[tas]

You can use google maps. Just right click on the school, select measure distance, and click on the point you are interested in.

[Ginster]

One school we visited said to use a site called Daft Logic

[devsdev]

While not a straight line calculator, it does map the school catchment area: http://www.schoolcatchment.co.uk/. The search function for postcodes isn't great, but you can drag and drop the pin for your address so it's more accurate.

[IAM]

https://www.freemaptools.com/

choose radius around a point

[Jemmarc]

You can email the admissions team at the Council and they can tell you exactly as they will measure it. At least you can with Lewisham which is where we are. I'm sure they don't have time for hundreds of emails with long lists of schools but I think if it genuinely affects your decision as to preferences etc they will help. In our case the 'pin' on some of the online maps wasn't actually showing accurately where we lived. I emailed the council and they responded within a couple of days.

[trefford21]

You can use this calculator that I created a couple of years ago...

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10_LWyHqZ3x8w3YRJWOey9Wv6lcaeCmABPWbxXAYkXGY/edit#gid=0

[Sol]

Thank you very much. This is very helpful.

[Fjgb]

I strongly recommend you contact the council to get this info as doing it by postcode isn't accurate - on online tools it just measures from the centre of a postcode whereas the accurate distance might be 30-40 metres different.