Asked by: Suella Braverman (Reform UK - Fareham and Waterlooville)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the distance is to the nearest selective school from the centre of each of the towns and cities in England with a population over 75,000; and for those such towns and cities in England for which that distance is less than 10 miles, how many selective schools are within 10 miles of that town or city centre.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The requested information can be found in the table below:
Distances from major towns and cities in England to the nearest state-funded selective school | ||||
Town / City | Distance to Nearest Grammar School (miles) | Number of Grammar Schools within 10 miles | ||
Barnsley | 13.3 | 0 | ||
Basildon | 7.9 | 3 | ||
Basingstoke | 13.9 | 0 | ||
Bath | 26.1 | 0 | ||
Bedford | 24.2 | 0 | ||
Birkenhead | 1.1 | 7 | ||
Birmingham | 1.2 | 10 | ||
Blackburn | 9.6 | 1 | ||
Blackpool | 18.4 | 0 | ||
Bolton | 9.2 | 1 | ||
Bournemouth | 2.3 | 4 | ||
Bracknell | 8.9 | 6 | ||
Bradford | 5.8 | 3 | ||
Brighton and Hove | 28.2 | 0 | ||
Bristol | 25.2 | 0 | ||
Burnley | 6.6 | 2 | ||
Burton upon Trent | 18.6 | 0 | ||
Bury | 7.2 | 1 | ||
Cambridge | 35.2 | 0 | ||
Carlisle | 17.6 | 0 | ||
Chatham | 0.4 | 14 | ||
Chelmsford | 0.4 | 2 | ||
Cheltenham | 1.7 | 5 | ||
Chester | 11.8 | 0 | ||
Chesterfield | 29.3 | 0 | ||
Colchester | 0.7 | 2 | ||
Coventry | 10.6 | 0 | ||
Crawley | 16.6 | 0 | ||
Darlington | 26.6 | 0 | ||
Derby | 28.5 | 0 | ||
Doncaster | 16.4 | 0 | ||
Dudley | 6.3 | 9 | ||
Eastbourne | 25.2 | 0 | ||
Exeter | 16.7 | 0 | ||
Gateshead | 50.4 | 0 | ||
Gillingham | 0.9 | 14 | ||
Gloucester | 0.6 | 7 | ||
Grimsby | 11.0 | 0 | ||
Guildford | 17.0 | 0 | ||
Halifax | 1.4 | 3 | ||
Harlow | 11.5 | 0 | ||
Harrogate | 10.2 | 0 | ||
Hartlepool | 40.4 | 0 | ||
Hastings | 16.8 | 0 | ||
Hemel Hempstead | 7.2 | 3 | ||
High Wycombe | 0.9 | 10 | ||
Huddersfield | 5.9 | 3 | ||
Ipswich | 16.2 | 0 | ||
Kingston upon Hull | 17.2 | 0 | ||
Leeds | 8.1 | 1 | ||
Leicester | 19.0 | 0 | ||
Lincoln | 15.9 | 0 | ||
Liverpool | 2.7 | 7 | ||
London | 5.7 | 7 | ||
Luton | 14.1 | 0 | ||
Maidstone | 0.5 | 10 | ||
Manchester | 3.4 | 7 | ||
Mansfield | 25.3 | 0 | ||
Middlesbrough | 32.5 | 0 | ||
Milton Keynes | 10.2 | 0 | ||
Newcastle upon Tyne | 50.6 | 0 | ||
Newcastle-under-Lyme | 2.1 | 1 | ||
Northampton | 17.4 | 0 | ||
Norwich | 53.9 | 0 | ||
Nottingham | 21.7 | 0 | ||
Nuneaton | 13.6 | 0 | ||
Oldham | 10.2 | 0 | ||
Oxford | 19.1 | 0 | ||
Peterborough | 14.5 | 0 | ||
Plymouth | 0.4 | 3 | ||
Poole | 2.1 | 4 | ||
Portsmouth | 33.8 | 0 | ||
Preston | 15.0 | 0 | ||
Reading | 0.6 | 2 | ||
Redditch | 6.9 | 4 | ||
Rochdale | 6.9 | 1 | ||
Rotherham | 22.8 | 0 | ||
Salford | 3.0 | 7 | ||
Scunthorpe | 13.2 | 0 | ||
Sheffield | 24.0 | 0 | ||
Shrewsbury | 16.2 | 0 | ||
Slough | 0.8 | 7 | ||
Solihull | 5.4 | 6 | ||
South Shields | 58.1 | 0 | ||
Southampton | 20.2 | 0 | ||
Southend-on-Sea | 0.8 | 4 | ||
Southport | 17.8 | 0 | ||
St Albans | 8.6 | 1 | ||
St Helens | 8.6 | 1 | ||
Stevenage | 17.2 | 0 | ||
Stockport | 6.2 | 7 | ||
Stockton-on-Tees | 31.0 | 0 | ||
Stoke-on-Trent | 1.3 | 1 | ||
Sunderland | 53.5 | 0 | ||
Sutton Coldfield | 0.1 | 7 | ||
Swindon | 23.5 | 0 | ||
Telford | 6.5 | 2 | ||
Wakefield | 6.9 | 1 | ||
Walsall | 0.4 | 8 | ||
Warrington | 9.8 | 2 | ||
Watford | 7.6 | 5 | ||
West Bromwich | 2.8 | 11 | ||
Weston-Super-Mare | 42.2 | 0 | ||
Wigan | 13.0 | 0 | ||
Woking | 12.6 | 0 | ||
Wolverhampton | 1.2 | 3 | ||
Worcester | 14.8 | 0 | ||
Worthing | 35.6 | 0 | ||
York | 22.2 | 0 | ||
Notes: | ||||
Distances are calculated based on the location of the town centre according to Google Maps | ||||
Major towns and cities are from the 2016 ONS list based on towns and cities in England with a resident or workday population of more than 75,000 in the 2011 census. | ||||
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