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Use our free interactive tool to check whether any Bexley property falls within primary or secondary school catchment zones. Bexley retains selective education, so secondary planning in this borough means understanding the Bexley selection test alongside ordinary distance-based catchment.
Free interactive map — enter any Bexleyheath, Sidcup, Welling or Erith postcode and see exactly which catchment areas it falls within.
Bexley operates a selection test for entry to its grammar schools, which include Bexley Grammar School, Beths Grammar School and Townley Grammar School. Places at these schools are allocated on test performance, not catchment distance. The borough's non-selective secondaries continue to allocate on distance and are themselves heavily oversubscribed.
Bexley Council coordinates admissions for community primary and secondary schools. For non-selective schools, the usual tiebreaker after looked-after children, EHC-plan holders and siblings is straight-line distance from home to school.
For grammar school entry, children sit the Bexley selection test, normally in the September of Year 6. Distance may act only as a tiebreaker among candidates of equal rank, so a nearby address does not by itself secure a grammar place.
Bexley Council publishes annual admissions statistics including the furthest distance offered at each oversubscribed non-selective school, plus details of the selection test. Search 'Bexley school admissions' on the Bexley Council website.
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Click "Add School" and search by school name or postcode. The tool locates it on the interactive map automatically.
Add the radius from the school's admissions data. You can enter distances in metres for precision.
Use "Check Address" to test any Bexley address. It will show you exactly how far inside or outside the catchment that property sits.
Our tool works for schools across Bexley and surrounding areas:
For Bexley's non-selective schools, distance decides. Our tool measures to the metre using the council's method.
See how Bexley catchments have shifted year on year as grammar demand reshapes the surrounding schools.
Plot up to 5 Bexley schools at once to compare selective and non-selective options.
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Bexley's selective schools include Bexley Grammar School, Beths Grammar School and Townley Grammar School. Entry is via the Bexley selection test rather than catchment distance.
No. Children from outside the borough may register for the Bexley selection test. However, some Bexley schools give priority to borough residents in their published criteria, so check each school's arrangements.
Non-selective secondaries in Bexleyheath, Blackfen and Sidcup tend to be the most oversubscribed, with correspondingly short catchment distances.
Search 'Bexley school admissions' on the Bexley Council website for both the selection test details and the furthest distance offered at each oversubscribed school.
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