Ofsted Ratings & Report Cards (Schools + Early Years)

Get the latest Ofsted inspection results for every state-funded school in England (about 22,000) and every registered early years provider (about 60,000 nurseries, pre-schools and childminders) as one flat table.

Schools include the new report card grades Ofsted has used since November 2025 (Inclusion, Curriculum and teaching, Achievement, Attendance and behaviour, Personal development and wellbeing, Leadership and governance, Early years, Post-16, plus Safeguarding met / not met), and the last graded judgement under the old framework (Outstanding / Good / Requires improvement / Inadequate), and the latest ungraded inspection outcome. Most other tools only show one of the three.

The actor always reads the newest management-information files Ofsted publishes on GOV.UK, so you never get a stale copy.

What it's for

• Property and relocation: schools near a postcode with their latest grades, for listings, area guides and relocation reports.
• EdTech and education suppliers: lead lists of schools by phase, size, trust, region or inspection outcome, for example schools whose report card says "Needs attention" in achievement.
• Multi-academy trusts and local authorities: monitor every school in a trust or council in one table.
• Nursery groups and early years suppliers: every childcare provider in an area with places and rating.
• Journalism and research: report card outcomes since November 2025, broken down by region or phase.

Input

Field	What it does
providerTypes	schools, earlyYears, or both. Default: schools.
nameContains	Part of the name.
urns	Look up specific Ofsted URNs (numbers for schools, EY… or numbers for early years).
postcodePrefixes	LS (all of Leeds), M20, SW1A. LS1 won't match LS11.
localAuthorities	Council names, e.g. Manchester, Kent, Tower Hamlets.
regions	The nine English regions.
phases	School phase (Primary, Secondary, Special, Nursery, Alternative provision) or school/provider type (Academy Sponsor Led, Childminder, Childcare on non-domestic premises).
overallEffectiveness	Last graded judgement: Outstanding, Good, Requires improvement, Inadequate, Not judged, or No graded inspection.
reportCardConcernsOnly	Only schools with any report card area at "Needs attention" or "Urgent improvement".
inspectedSince	Latest inspection on or after this date.
maxResults	Stop after this many (default 1,000).

Every school and nursery in Manchester M20:

{
    "providerTypes": ["schools", "earlyYears"],
    "postcodePrefixes": ["M20"]
}

Secondary schools in London with a report card concern:

{
    "regions": ["London"],
    "phases": ["Secondary"],
    "reportCardConcernsOnly": true
}

Output

A school with a report card:

{
    "providerType": "School",
    "urn": "141196",
    "name": "Levenshulme High School",
    "phase": "Secondary",
    "type": "Academy Sponsor Led",
    "postcode": "M19 1FS",
    "localAuthority": "Manchester",
    "region": "North West",
    "parliamentaryConstituency": "Gorton and Denton",
    "pupilsOrPlaces": 1057,
    "trust": "GREATER MANCHESTER EDUCATION TRUST",
    "latestInspectionDate": "2026-06-30",
    "reportCardInspectionDate": "2026-06-30",
    "reportCardPublished": "2026-09-22",
    "safeguarding": "Met",
    "inclusion": "Strong standard",
    "curriculumAndTeaching": "Expected standard",
    "achievement": "Strong standard",
    "attendanceAndBehaviour": "Strong standard",
    "personalDevelopmentAndWellbeing": "Expected standard",
    "earlyYears": "Not applicable",
    "post16": "Not applicable",
    "leadershipAndGovernance": "Strong standard",
    "reportCardHasConcern": false,
    "overallEffectiveness": null,
    "ungradedInspectionDate": "2022-06-09",
    "ungradedOutcome": "School remains Outstanding",
    "categoryOfConcern": null,
    "reportUrl": "https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/inspection-reports/find-inspection-report/provider/ELS/141196",
    "dataAsAt": "2026-09-29",
    "source": "Ofsted management information, Open Government Licence v3.0"
}

An early years provider has the same columns, with address, town, pupilsOrPlaces (registered places), registeredOn, overallEffectiveness and the four key judgements filled in, and the report card columns empty.

Pricing

$0.003 per school or provider returned, plus $0.005 per run. 1,000 rows cost $3.005.

Good to know

• Report cards vs grades. Schools inspected since November 2025 get report card grades (Exceptional, Strong standard, Expected standard, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) instead of a single overall grade. Schools not yet inspected under the new framework show their last graded judgement and/or their last ungraded inspection.
• Pre-2019 grades. Ofsted's current files leave the graded columns empty for schools whose last graded inspection was before September 2019; for those you'll usually see an ungraded outcome such as "School remains Good".
• Childminders' names and addresses are redacted by Ofsted and come back as null.
• Update frequency. Ofsted publishes school files monthly and early years files twice a year; dataAsAt shows which one you got.
• England only. Independent schools, further education and children's social care are not included yet.

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Data source and licence

Ofsted's state-funded school inspections and outcomes and childcare providers and inspections management information, under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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