Pricing and research access

Research for your school choice

Read the school accounts and comparisons, understand the differences, and prepare questions for the schools. Paid access adds the available research and briefings you can keep. The public figures, sources and articles remain free.

Individual access: £79 for 60 days · Professional licence: £240 for 90 days. One payment; no automatic renewal.

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Both licences include the same published research. Choose Individual for your household or Professional for your own client advice.

Individual access

£79 for 60 days

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Who: One adult
Use: Your own household’s school research
Not included: Use in paid advice to other families
Term: 60 days from confirmed payment; no automatic renewal. Briefings you saved stay readable afterwards.

Professional licence

£240 for 90 days

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Who: One named user in one organisation
Use: Repeated use of the same research in that organisation’s own client advice, with attributed extracts that keep their edition date, definitions and qualifications
Not included: Resale, bulk republication, a maintained feed, or removing The Schools Record’s name
Term: 90 days from confirmed payment; no automatic renewal. Briefings you saved stay readable afterwards.

More about the Professional licence

The licences side by side, as the research access terms set them out.
Term	Individual access	Professional licence
Research	The whole research edition: every study’s interpretation, period check and questions, and your briefing	The same research edition
Who	One adult	One named user in one organisation
Use	Your own household’s school research	Repeated use in your organisation’s own client advice, with attributed extracts that keep their edition date, definitions and qualifications
Not included	Use in paid advice to other families	Resale, bulk republication, a maintained feed, or removing The Schools Record’s name
Term	60 days from confirmed payment	90 days from confirmed payment
Renewal	None; a new licence is a new purchase	None; a new licence is a new purchase

Prices are in pounds and are the total you pay; no UK VAT is charged. Access starts as soon as your payment is confirmed: on the payment page you agree that, once it starts, you can’t cancel within 14 days for a change of mind. Your rights if something is wrong are unaffected (refunds and cancellation). The payment appears on your statement as THE SCHOOLS RECORD. Questions: hello@theschoolsrecord.co.uk.

Free, without either licence

Every study’s question, answer and figures, with each figure’s record and source
Every qualification, and each dated source review
Compare, Test a claim and the Questions, as now
One complete worked briefing, open in full with a copy to keep: the example

What research access adds

School accounts and comparisons for the choices we cover
An explanation of the differences that matter and questions to ask the schools
The historical studies’ interpretation and checks across years
Private notes for each enquiry, where you can keep questions, answers and next steps
Dated briefings with their sources, plus a summary of later changes affecting them

Every reader receives the same published findings. Payment cannot change them.

What you receive

A choice between schools often becomes clearer when you look closely at their programmes. How many subjects would a pupil continue? What would an independent project ask of them? How would they join the sixth form? The research explains the published arrangements and their implications, then helps you prepare questions about how they work in practice.

Choose up to three schools, your intended entry year and any subjects you want to investigate.
Check the years covered by each source. Fees for 2026–27 do not establish the cost of entry in September 2027, and an undated subject list does not confirm a future combination.
Read the school accounts and comparisons alongside their historical results.
Save the enquiry, keep your questions and record the answers you receive. You can make a separate dated briefing of the published research, with its sources and qualifications, as a readable HTML file or structured JSON data. Your private notes stay separate. Later, you can check what has changed since that briefing.

Once your payment is confirmed, you can read the research immediately. Professional rights permit attributed repeated use in the named user’s organisation’s client advice. Earlier issued notes keep their original research and remain readable after access ends.

The public record remains free: 37,396 historical records across 19 schools, their sources and corrections, dated information about school programmes, details of what we have checked and the complete open choice briefing. The historical edition includes 273 comparisons, 17 subject studies and 4 destination tables. The first choice research concerns sixth-form entry. Research depth, exact combinations and chosen-year support vary by school. Check the actual coverage for your selection before buying.

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. For other selections, you receive the available school accounts, historical subject studies and questions. Some school accounts are short introductions; choosing a new combination does not commission a new comparison. Check the available research and source coverage for your schools before buying.

Excluded: a bespoke Review or analyst session, a recommendation for an individual child, observed or guaranteed pastoral quality, a prediction of happiness or grades, admission probability or guarantee, school rankings, and future provision or prices not explicitly supported by dated sources. Research access does not fill a source gap by assumption.

We update the publication as the evidence changes. Access is to that publication; it does not commission a separate review. The Schools Record takes no school money, sells no paid placement and allows no sponsor review.

How to use your purchase

Complete payment on Stripe. When you return, this page checks the payment and opens your access.
Create and verify an account in the same browser, or log in if you already have one. Then choose “Link this browser’s purchase” in your account so you can return on another device.
Open your school choice research or your briefing. Your account shows the access you hold and when it ends.

If you paid earlier but cannot see the research, use access recovery before buying again. For help, email hello@theschoolsrecord.co.uk.

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