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Area guide · North Northamptonshire and West Northamptonshire

Living in Northamptonshire with children

Northamptonshire, North Northamptonshire and West Northamptonshire. What the published figures say about its schools, its homes and daily life, each with its source and date.

3schools in Northamptonshire
87%gigabit broadband

Schools

3 schools: 0 state primary, 0 state secondary, 3 privateNorthamptonshire on the schools map →

No school in Northamptonshire is in the league tables we hold.

Every school in Northamptonshire, with inspection, league band and the last place offered

Private schools (3)

SchoolInspectionLeague rankLast place offered
Oundle SchoolIndependent Schools Inspectorate: standards met1st (1/2) in North Northamptonshire—
Akeley Wood Junior SchoolIndependent Schools Inspectorate: standards met——
Youth Works Community College———
Northamptonshire rankings →Could we get in? →Catchments →

Rank: the school's place among its council's schools of the same phase, from three years of DfE results (kinplace's league table, how it is worked out); schools with hidden or no results get none. Inspections: Ofsted and ISI. Last place offered: the council's offer-day figures. School register: DfE Get Information about Schools, updated 17 October 2026.

Homes and prices

Typical sale, last 12 months (Land Registry)

We don't hold Land Registry sales for Northamptonshire yet, so its typical prices are unknown here.

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Getting around

Stops and stations (NaPTAN), and broadband (Ofcom)
1railway station within 2 km: Wellingborough Rail Station (1.2 miles)
74bus stops within 1 km of the middle of its schools

Source: DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes). Straight-line distances.

Gigabit broadband can be ordered at 87% of premises, and superfast (30 Mbit/s) at 97%, on average across the 1,615 postcodes in MK19, PE8, NN16. Check the postcode you are looking at: it can differ street by street.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, July 2025, fixed broadband coverage by postcode (an average of postcodes, not of homes).

Safety and environment

The town centre; addresses vary
not heldCrimeWe don't hold police.uk figures for Northamptonshire yet.
Flood zone 1FloodAt the middle of its schools, the area is in flood zone 1 for rivers and the sea on the Environment Agency's Flood Map for Planning (not in zone 2 or 3, the lowest of the three). Surface-water risk: we don't hold that map, so it is unknown here. One point says little about a whole town, and the zones describe the area, not a building: check the address on the Environment Agency's long-term flood risk service.Source: Environment Agency, Flood Map for Planning (Rivers and Sea), read from its open download. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. Open Government Licence v3.0.
NO₂ 9.1AirAt the middle of its schools, an annual mean on DEFRA's 1 km map: nitrogen dioxide 9.1 µg/m³ (2024); PM2.5 7.5 µg/m³ (2024); PM10 12.9 µg/m³ (2024). A background figure, not the air beside a busy road. Source: DEFRA, Pollution Climate Mapping (PCM) 1 km background maps.

Childcare

Ofsted early years register; published prices

We don't hold registered nurseries for Northamptonshire.

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Key dates, North Northamptonshire

The next dates for families applying
Secondary applications close31 Oct 2026
Primary applications close15 Jan 2027
Secondary offer day1 Mar 2027

Application deadlines and offer days: North Northamptonshire · West Northamptonshire.

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Nearby towns

WellingboroughIrthlingboroughHigham FerrersRushdenPodingtonKetteringNorthamptonOlney
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Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Sources are named beside each figure. How we know · All sources.