How you can use the figures and the research edition

What the site is for

The Schools Record is an independent research publication. It doesn’t judge whether a school suits a particular child, or predict admission. Results alone can’t show the quality of teaching, because selection, prior attainment, subject choices and the make-up of a year group all matter.

Quoting a figure

When you quote a figure, keep its year, qualification, the group it counts, what kind of outcome it is and its limits. Subject entries are not pupils; offers are not places; a blank is not zero. We never take a median across a change of qualification, group or outcome, and compare those periods stretch by stretch. A comparable figure is our calculation and should be quoted as one.

Using the public pages

You may quote and link to the public pages, including in advice to clients, with attribution and the qualifications that matter. Third-party publications and photographs keep their own rights; being public doesn’t transfer them. We claim no exclusive right over public facts. A link to a source doesn’t mean every figure in it has been checked: each record says separately whether its original was checked for that year.

Research access

Who sells it. Research access is sold by Andre Kaljevic, trading as The Schools Record, Christopher Court, 97 Leman Street, London E1 8GJ. Write to hello@theschoolsrecord.co.uk.

Scope of research access. Personal research access adds the maintained school accounts and comparison briefings: what the reviewed published material says, the consequences for the schools and subjects you choose, what remains unresolved, and questions to take to the school. It also adds the historical studies’ interpretation and period checks. You can read the briefing immediately under an active licence, save the structured school, entry-year and subject choices, and issue a dated, source-linked HTML and JSON note. Public school facts, historical figures, definitions and qualifications remain free, together with a full worked briefing showing the product before purchase.

Saved shared research. You can save a school or study selection and issue a dated, source-linked note as HTML and structured JSON while access is active. Personal notes are for your own household's research; notes for client work require active Professional rights. Each note retains its research version, sources, definitions and qualifications. Previously issued notes stay unchanged and readable after access ends. This browser's necessary cookie may remain for 180 days after a note is issued to retrieve it; that does not extend paid access. Keep a downloaded copy if you need it for longer or clear your browser's data.

Coverage and current gaps. Coverage varies by school, field, reference year and historical measure. Read the selected briefing’s coverage and current gaps before checkout. For subjects, entry arrangements and costs, we state which published wording we have checked, when it applies and which entry age it concerns. An undated page, or one that gives no academic year, cannot confirm what a future entrant will be offered. A subject list cannot confirm that a combination is permitted, that a pupil meets the prerequisites, that they will be admitted or that a place is available. A published fee is kept with its stated period, tax wording and exclusions; no future price or annual total is invented. We identify missing or conflicting information about subjects, combinations, entry conditions, day or boarding arrangements and costs. Those questions remain open in the briefing. A past result in a subject does not tell you whether the school offers it now. Buying access commissions no bespoke Review and promises no fresh school verification for an individual purchase.

The two licences.

• Individual access, £79 for 60 days: one adult, for their own household’s school research. Not for use in paid advice to other families.
• Professional licence, £240 for 90 days: one named user in one organisation, for repeated use of the same research in that organisation’s own client advice. Extracts are attributed to The Schools Record and keep their edition date, definitions and qualifications. It does not permit resale, bulk republication, a maintained feed, or removing The Schools Record’s name.

Price and tax. Prices are in pounds sterling and are the total you pay. We are not registered for VAT in the UK, so no UK VAT is charged. Where another country’s tax applies to a purchase by a consumer, it is included in the price. If you buy for a business outside the UK, you may need to account for any tax due in your own country. Your bank may charge for paying in pounds.

When access starts and ends. Your licence starts when the payment provider confirms your payment (arriving back on this site is not enough) and lasts exactly 60 or 90 days. It does not renew: a new licence is a new purchase. It is kept in the browser you bought it on; if you lose it, for example by clearing that browser’s data, write to us with the date of your payment and the email address you paid with, and we will restore it or refund you. Briefings you saved during the licence stay readable afterwards; a new briefing needs a current licence.

Your right to cancel. When you buy research access you ask for it to start as soon as your payment is confirmed. If you buy Individual access as a consumer, you agree on the payment page that once access starts you lose your right to cancel within 14 days for a change of mind. The invoice Stripe emails you after payment confirms that agreement and the terms version. The Professional licence is bought for business use and has no statutory cancellation right. Refunds are set out below.

Corrections. If a study misreads a source, the correction is published for every reader with its reason and effect, and a saved briefing keeps its edition date, so you can tell which version you used. Payment can’t change the evidence or a conclusion.

The service records a notice when a published correction affects saved shared research. An already issued note stays unchanged; a newly issued note uses the new research version. We review sources, develop the research and publish corrections for all readers. We take no school money, publish no rankings, sell no paid placement and allow no sponsor review.

What it isn’t. Research access is not advice on whether a school suits a child, admissions advice, a prediction, a ranking, time with an analyst, or new research outside the edition. The earlier commissioned Review is retired as a core product; its dated sample remains historical material.

Our responsibility. Research access is our reading of published school material and historical results, not a guarantee of any outcome. Nothing in these terms limits any liability the law does not allow us to limit. Otherwise, our total liability to you for a licence is the price you paid for it.

Complaints and law. Write to hello@theschoolsrecord.co.uk. These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales; a consumer may also bring proceedings where they live in the UK. Research access is sold worldwide, and nothing in these terms takes away rights you have under the law of the country where you live.

Version. Research access terms, version research-access-2026-09-30, in force from 30 September 2026. An earlier order keeps the terms version and licence snapshot it was bought under; this version does not amend it. Prices, licence durations and the absence of automatic renewal are unchanged.

Refunds and cancellation

Cancelling before you pay. Leaving or cancelling the payment page charges nothing.

After access starts. We don’t refund a change of mind once access has started.

If something is wrong. You’re entitled to research access that is as described, of satisfactory quality and fit for its purpose. If it isn’t, tell us and we will put it right; if we can’t, you’ll get a refund, in full or in part. In particular:

• if your access doesn’t start within 24 hours of your payment, we refund you in full;
• if research access is unavailable for more than 7 days in a row during your licence, we refund the unused part of your licence;
• if you were charged twice, or charged without a licence being granted, we refund the extra payment in full.

Buying the Professional licence while you hold Individual access. The Professional licence is a separate purchase at its full price. Your Individual access carries on unchanged until its own end date, the Professional licence runs 90 days from its payment, and nothing is credited for the Individual days left.

How to ask. Write to hello@theschoolsrecord.co.uk with the date of your payment and the email address you paid with. We reply within 10 working days. A refund goes back to the card or account you paid with within 14 days of our agreeing it; your bank may take a few more days to show it. A full refund ends the licence it paid for. Briefings you saved stay readable.

On your statement. The payment appears on your card or bank statement as THE SCHOOLS RECORD.

Disputes. If you don’t recognise a payment or something went wrong, please write to us first: it is usually quicker than a card dispute.

Who publishes the record

The publisher of The Schools Record is named in the privacy notice. Questions about these terms go to hello@theschoolsrecord.co.uk, and a figure that looks wrong to corrections@theschoolsrecord.co.uk. The About page sets out the corrections policy and schools’ right of reply.

Availability

We can’t guarantee the site will always be available. New figures and disagreements between sources are added alongside the original compiled record, which is kept as it was. Whether research access is on sale is stated under research access above, and on the professional licence page.

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