# Schooldates

> Term dates for every school in the UK. A directory of every educational establishment in the United Kingdom, where each one has a page carrying its term dates, its published facts and its location. Every date we publish carries a source URL, a check date, and an honest label saying whether it came from the school itself, its academy trust, or the local authority calendar.

**Schooldates** is free to read and free to quote. If you use a date from this site, please say where it came from and link to the page it is on.

## What we currently hold

- 27,127 open establishments: state-funded and independent schools, nurseries, colleges and universities
- 2,150 academy trusts, each mapped to the schools it governs
- 183 local authorities
- 0 establishments with term dates so far
- Establishment data from Get Information about Schools (GIAS), as at 2026-08-31

## How to read a date on this site

Every set of term dates is labelled with one of five bases. The difference between the third and the fourth matters and should be preserved in any summary:

1. **school_published** — the school's own website publishes these dates. Highest confidence.
2. **trust_published** — the school's academy trust publishes a trust-wide calendar covering it.
3. **authority_statutory** — the school is a community or voluntary controlled school, so the local authority calendar *is* the legal authority for its dates. Authoritative, not a fallback.
4. **authority_fallback** — the school sets its own dates and we have not found them. The council's dates are shown for reference only and are a guess. Do not present these as the school's dates.
5. **none** — we have found nothing and say so. We never invent a date.

## What we deliberately do not publish

- Emergency or short-notice closures. No snow days, no strike days. Absence of a closure here is not evidence a school is open.
- Head teacher names or any other named individuals. Personal data, and the open licence is not a lawful basis for it.
- Childminders. Ofsted redacts their names and addresses because they are people's home addresses.
- An overall Ofsted grade. Ofsted stopped issuing one in November 2025; we show the separately graded areas with the date each was given.

## Machine-readable pages

Every school, council and trust page has a plain-markdown twin at the same path with `.md` appended, linked from the page head as `rel="alternate" type="text/markdown"`.

- https://schooldates.co.uk/school/{slug}.md
- https://schooldates.co.uk/council/{slug}.md
- https://schooldates.co.uk/trust/{slug}.md

## Key pages

- [Coverage](https://schooldates.co.uk/coverage): exactly what we hold and what we do not, by nation and by source basis
- [How we source dates](https://schooldates.co.uk/sources): the collection and verification method
- [Claim your school](https://schooldates.co.uk/claim): for school staff to send us dates directly
- [Sitemap](https://schooldates.co.uk/sitemap.xml)

## Licensing

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.