# UK Schools & Colleges Directory (GIAS + Ofsted) (`faceless-api/uk-schools-gias-ofsted`) Actor

Every school, academy, college and nursery in England from the Department for Education register — type and phase, status, local authority and region, address, website, capacity and pupils on roll, academy trust — joined to the latest Ofsted rating and inspection date. Official DfE and Ofsted.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/faceless-api/uk-schools-gias-ofsted.md
- **Developed by:** [gio](https://apify.com/faceless-api) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Business
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$1.00 / 1,000 result (one record)s

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## UK Schools & Colleges Directory (GIAS + Ofsted)

**Every school, academy, college and nursery in England** — from the Department for Education's official Get Information About Schools register, joined by URN to Ofsted's published inspection outcomes. URN, name, establishment type and phase, open/closed status, local authority and region, address and postcode area, website, capacity and pupils on roll, statutory age range, academy trust, open and close dates, the latest Ofsted rating and inspection date, and the GIAS page URL. Open Government Licence v3.

### What people use it for

- **Edtech and school suppliers** — prospect lists by phase, size, region or trust.
- **Teacher recruitment and tutoring** — every secondary in a county, with pupil numbers.
- **MAT and education analysts** — trust estates, Ofsted outcomes, openings and closures.

### Output (one item per establishment)

`urn, name, establishment_type, phase, status, local_authority, region, address, town, postcode, outward_code, website, school_capacity, pupils, statutory_low_age, statutory_high_age, trust_name, trust_id, open_date, close_date, ofsted_rating, ofsted_last_inspection, gias_url`

### Data posture

Establishment-level data as published by DfE and Ofsted. Head teacher names and the telephone column are dropped at ingest, and the GIAS governors extract is never used. Pay per result; set **Maximum results** to control spend. Data from gankdat.com (REST API, MCP server, daily change feeds).

# Actor input Schema

## `phase` (type: `string`):

e.g. Primary, Secondary, Nursery, 16 plus, All-through

## `establishment_type` (type: `string`):

e.g. Academy converter, Community school, Free schools, Further education, Other independent school

## `status` (type: `string`):

Open, Closed, Proposed to open, Open, but proposed to close. Leave blank for all.

## `local_authority` (type: `string`):

Filter: Local authority contains (case-insensitive substring match).

## `region` (type: `string`):

London, North West, South East, West Midlands, …

## `town` (type: `string`):

Filter: Town contains (case-insensitive substring match).

## `outward_code` (type: `string`):

Filter: Postcode area (outward code) (case-insensitive substring match).

## `trust_name` (type: `string`):

Filter: Academy trust name contains (case-insensitive substring match).

## `ofsted_rating` (type: `string`):

Outstanding, Good, Requires improvement, Inadequate

## `pupils_min` (type: `integer`):

Only schools with at least this many pupils at the last census.

## `pupils_max` (type: `integer`):

Only schools with at most this many pupils at the last census.

## `ofsted_last_inspection_after` (type: `string`):

YYYY-MM-DD

## `q` (type: `string`):

Filter: Free-text search (case-insensitive substring match).

## `max_results` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many records (you are charged per result).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "max_results": 1000
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

One item per record, as JSON (also downloadable as CSV/Excel from the dataset).

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("faceless-api/uk-schools-gias-ofsted").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("faceless-api/uk-schools-gias-ofsted").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call faceless-api/uk-schools-gias-ofsted --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,faceless-api/uk-schools-gias-ofsted"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/JpzvkJcNfbaieyqrg/builds/G6xf81S0tKrCwNWtG/openapi.json