primary school admission distances

[Ole]

Does anybody know where I can find primary school admissions furthest distances? Southwark council has published the figures for this year's intake, but I want to see what the trends are for my nearest schools so I thought it would be good to have the distances from a few years back too

[EastDulwichSE22]

Do you have the link for this year ?

[alieh]

Here's the Starting School in Southwark 2014/15 booklet that should have distances for this year (p. 18): http://www.southwark.gov.uk/downloads/download/2483/primary_school_admissions

If you google "Starting School in Southwark" and a different year the old version of this same booklet should come up.

Same for Lewisham.

[EastDulwichSE22]

Super, thank you very much.

[EastDulwichSE22]

Do you know if any MPs etc are able to provide the distance calculator that the schools use?

[alieh]

They don't seem to be able to share the exact system but I found this to be the best one for checking yourself: http://www.freemaptools.com/how-far-is-it-between.htm

[akc74]

This tool is slightly frustrating (but is the one that is consistently recommended) - if you live on a long road, your postcode just narrows it down to the houses on your side of the street. So when you put a postcode into this mapping tool, it just picks a point on the middle of our road, which is quite long and we live right at the end.

Can anyone enlighten me as to how to use it more accurately?!

[alieh]

It is highly frustrating yes! But if you put in your house number, road, SE22 or whatever it should find it better. Sometimes works better than others!

[Indiana]

Just worked out.... Scroll down the page to below map, click on 'measure distance tool'

You can then plot exact crow flies distance by touching map ( ie your house location) the adding second point as school location. Much more accurate

Press clear last point or clear map to try again

More accurate than just postcode

[prm]

This Google Maps tool also works out exact distance between map points: