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For professionals · Professional licence
£240 for 90 days · One named user in one organisation. No automatic renewal.
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A family may arrive with two schools in mind and excellent results from both. You still need to talk about the education: which subjects a pupil could keep, how they would work and what joining the school might involve. Our accounts and historical studies help you prepare that conversation. Keep your own judgement in the case notes and give the family a briefing with the research and its sources.
The Professional licence lets one named person use this research repeatedly in their organisation’s own client advice. Attributed extracts keep their edition dates, definitions and qualifications.
Independent education advisers and consultants helping families compare selective schools. Use the research to explain what a result establishes, examine the programme behind it and prepare the next conversation with a school.
The licence is for one named person in one organisation. A colleague who also advises clients needs a licence of their own.
This is the same research, interpretation and briefing that Individual access gives a family.
Enterprise access
If several colleagues need access, or your organisation wants to use the research in a different way, tell us what you have in mind. We will discuss the number of users, the work they need to do and the appropriate terms and price.
Include your organisation, the number of users and how you would use the research. The link opens an email in your own email app. Enterprise access is agreed separately; an enquiry does not create access or a payment obligation. The £240 for 90 days Professional licence is for one named user and does not include team access, resale or a data feed.
These are the licence terms in the research access terms, with refunds and cancellation.
The edition contains 294 studies: 273 comparisons, 17 historical subject studies and 4 destination tables. The school research pages bring them together with 37,396 historical records across 19 schools. Coverage varies by year, school and measure; read the school research and its coverage before purchasing. No study is promised where the available evidence does not support one.
Once Professional access is confirmed, choose the schools and questions relevant to a client’s enquiry and read the accounts and comparisons available for that selection. Save the enquiry and prepare a briefing with its sources and questions. The explanation comes first, followed by the year checks and source appendix. Keep the HTML copy and use attributed extracts repeatedly in your organisation's own advice. Read the complete worked choice briefing to see what a family would receive.
You can also save a school or study selection and issue a dated, source-linked note for client work in HTML or structured JSON. Keep the issue date, version, definitions and qualifications. Issued notes remain readable after access ends; creating a new professional note requires active Professional rights. Your professional knowledge supplies the advice on the client’s circumstances; this service does not collect a child's profile.
The complete KCS Wimbledon and St Paul’s example is free. We have written comparisons of KCS Wimbledon, St Paul’s and Westminster, of Eton and Winchester, and of SPGS and Wycombe Abbey. Other selections bring together the available school accounts, dated subject studies and questions. Some accounts are short introductions. A new shortlist does not commission a new comparison. Check the available research and source coverage for your schools before buying.
The school-choice research currently concerns sixth-form entry. It includes dated school publications, our reading of them and questions the sources leave unanswered. Each detail shows its reference year and what has been checked. Undated wording and fees for 2026–27 do not confirm arrangements or prices for a later intake. Check the coverage for the intended year before purchasing. Published policies cannot tell you how pastoral care works in daily life, whether a school would suit a particular pupil or whether a place is available. A bespoke Review, analyst session, personal recommendation, ranking, prediction of a child's outcome, admission guarantee, resale and a maintained partner feed are also excluded.
We update the publication as the evidence changes. Buying access does not commission a separate review. The Schools Record takes no school money, sells no paid placement and allows no sponsor review.
Both give the same research edition. They differ in who may use it, what for, and for how long.
| Terms | Individual access | Professional licence |
|---|---|---|
| Who | One adult | One named user in one organisation |
| Price | £79 | £240 |
| Term | 60 days from confirmed payment | 90 days from confirmed payment |
| Permitted use | Your own household’s school research | Repeated use in your organisation’s own client advice, with attribution, edition dates and qualifications |
| Research | The whole research edition | The same research edition |
| Renewal | None: access ends after 60 days | None: access ends after 90 days |
Neither licence renews automatically: a new licence is a new purchase. How research access works
Free, now
Pick two schools and one result, and see whether an apparent lead survives a change of years. Every figure opens on its source, its checks and what is still missing, and no account is needed.
Use these tools freely. Your saved choices stay in this browser; they are not shared with others or monitored for changes.
It doesn’t replace your knowledge of the child, the schools or admissions. It gives no advice on suitability or admissions and makes no predictions: published results can’t show how much a school’s teaching contributed, predict a child’s results or admission, or rank schools.
Payment can’t change the evidence or a conclusion. The published findings are the same for every reader. Corrections are explained in the publication; earlier issued copies keep their original content.
We no longer offer the commissioned Review. You can still read its historical sample with the original date, scope and draft status. Research access covers the published research described above.
Choose a licence on the research access page. Access starts once the payment is confirmed.