Data
Where the data comes from.
Your roster is the only data you provide. Everything else comes from the public record, published under the Open Government Licence, with OpenStreetMap's roads under the Open Database Licence.
Real pupils, minimal data
Schoolplot runs on your own roster, not a national average. You send an export from your MIS with a pupil reference, a postcode, month and year of birth, and the dates each pupil joined and left, but no names and no full dates of birth. You upload it yourself, and update it whenever you like. It's held under a written data processing agreement. The demographics are official public statistics for every neighbourhood in England, from the latest release of each source. Every layer on the map says where its numbers came from.
What we do with your data
Your roster is used to draw your own school's map and to check the model behind it. It will never be sold, and no other school can see it. Only the people your school invites can sign in. It is held in London. On the map each pupil is a dot scattered about their postcode, never a pin on a home. Your school remains the data controller, and Axis Maps handles it only under the data processing agreement.
Your roster
Each pupil's home postcode, year group and dates on roll. Birth month and year only, never a full date of birth.
Office for National Statistics
The neighbourhoods themselves, each of around 1,500 residents, and where every postcode falls. Children by age and household income. From the 2021 Census, home ownership, degree level qualifications, and managers and professionals.
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Children's education outcomes, from the English Indices of Deprivation 2025.
HM Land Registry
Homes sold since 2015, revalued to today's prices with the UK House Price Index, for the upper quartile house price.
Valuation Office Agency
The council tax band of every home, for the share in the top bands and the homes in those bands built since 2015.
Department for Education
The register of schools, the January school census, GCSE and A level results, and applications and offers, for the rival schools.
Ofsted
The latest inspection of each state rival.
OpenStreetMap
The roads the drive times are computed on.
Book a demo
Book a demoThe demo runs on a demonstration school, so there's nothing to prepare and no data to bring to the call. Schoolplot is one annual subscription per school.