Schools in postcode district S70. Add your full home postcode below for distance filtering and a your neighbourhood comparison with the wider S70 area.
📍Covers: Birdwell, Central, Dodworth, Greenacre, Horizon, Hunningley, Joseph Locke Primary School, Kendray, Kingstone, Rockingham, and 6 more areas
Add your home postcode in the green box below. Until then, distances use the centre of S70. The list starts at 3 miles — you can change that. Not an official school catchment.
📊 Neighbourhood & area context
Three levels help you compare places: your neighbourhood (your full postcode), postcode district S70 (schools and local averages on this page), and Barnsley (wider council census and crime — background only, not your street). We only show rows we actually hold.
Add your full home postcode in the green box above to see how your street compares with postcode district S70 and Barnsley.
District area rating (S70)★☆☆☆☆Below average
Postcode district S70
Schools and figures for this postcode district — the same S70 bucket as the map and school list (before your distance filter).
Schools in district
16 (11 primary, 3 secondary)
Average attendance
95.5%
Average free school meals
35.5%
Average SEN
21.7%
Average EAL
21%
Deprivation around local schools
Slightly more deprived than average for England
Average house price
£172,458 (+2.8% year on year)
About these figures: School data mostly from 2024–25. Wider-area lines use Census 2021 for Barnsley.
📍Map of schools in this area
The map shows 16 schools in postcode district S70. Numbered circles group nearby schools — click to zoom in. Use the list beside the map, a pin, or Show on map on a school card below.
📏How far from the S70 centre?
Pick a radius to control which schools appear in the list below. Only schools whose postcode is in S70 are included — we measure the straight-line distance from S70 centre. Add your home postcode above to search by distance from your address across nearby districts.
🎯 Show schools within:
3 miles is selected by default. Add your home postcode at the top to measure from your address instead of the district centre. Try 1 mile or 1.5 miles for a shorter list, 3 miles for a wider search, or All in district for every S70 school regardless of distance. Straight-line distance only — not walking, driving, or an official catchment area.
Schools (within 3 miles of S70 centre)
Sorted by distance from S70 centre, nearest first. Use the buttons above to change how far out we look, or show the whole of S70. Each card shows straight-line miles, Ofsted rating and key statistics.
1.2 miles from S70 centre🚴 Cycling distance🚗 Park & stride
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📖 Guide to school and area statistics
A short key for the statistics shown on this page for S70. We have not listed house prices, broadband, green space or similar extras here unless they appear in the neighbourhood and area context section.
School listings
What you see on each school card
Only fields that appear on at least one school on this page are listed. Hover a stat row when you see a question mark for a one-line reminder.
School type
How the school is run — for example academy, council-maintained, voluntary aided or free school.
Trust
The multi-academy trust or sponsor running the school, where it is an academy.
Age range
Year groups on roll — for example 4–11 for primary, or 11–18 with sixth form.
Ofsted
Latest published inspection grade, inspection date where we have it, and a link to the school’s page on the Ofsted reports site.
Straight-line miles
Distance as the crow flies from your home postcode when you have entered one, otherwise from the middle of this district. Not walking or driving time.
Walking, cycling and park-and-stride hints
Rough bands from straight-line miles: about 1 mile or less may suit walking; about 1–2.5 miles we show cycling and park-and-stride; over about 2.5 miles park-and-stride only. Not checked routes or journey times.
Pupils
Number of pupils on roll from published school census data.
Free school meals
Share of pupils eligible for free school meals.
SEN
Share of pupils with SEN support or an Education, Health and Care plan.
SEN provision
Extra on-site support such as a resourced provision or SEN unit.
English as an additional language (EAL)
Share of pupils whose first language is not English, where recorded.
Attendance
Share of possible sessions attended. Higher is better.
Persistent absence
Share of pupils missing 10% or more of sessions. Lower is better.
Admissions pressure
Indicative label from recent applications versus places — oversubscribed, about average or often has spaces.
Attainment
Primary: share meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (Key Stage 2). Secondary: Progress 8. A dash means nothing was published for that school.
Attainment vs local
Compares each school’s headline to others of the same phase on this page — above, below or about average for the district.
Area overview
What you see in the area overview
Matches the two blocks above — postcode district first, then the wider council area.
Area rating (stars)
A simple 1–5 guide from deprivation around schools here — not Ofsted grades. Recorded crime can nudge the score when we have it; estimates do not.
Schools in district
How many schools are in this postcode district, split by primary and secondary.
Average attendance
Mean attendance across schools here with published absence data.
Average free school meals
Mean free school meals eligibility across schools here with published data.
Average SEN
Mean SEN percentage across schools here with published data.
Average EAL
Mean English as an additional language percentage where published.
Deprivation
How deprived neighbourhoods around schools here are compared with England (official deprivation index, shown as bands 1–10 where 1 is most deprived and 10 is least deprived).
Average house price
Typical sold prices for this postcode district where we have them — street-by-street prices vary.
Your home neighbourhood
When you enter your full home postcode, we compare deprivation for your small area with the typical area around schools in this district.
Using this page
Using this page
Tools on this page for narrowing schools and understanding distances.
Distance filter
Controls which schools appear in the list — 1, 1.5, 2 or 3 miles, or every school in this district. Not an admissions catchment.
About these figures
School and Ofsted data from official releases. The area overview splits postcode-district figures from wider council context, with dates at the bottom of that panel.
