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Catchmently MCP

An MCP server that allows AI agents to look up UK school and nursery data, including Ofsted ratings, exam results, admissions details, and local area statistics like flood risk and crime, based on names or postcodes.

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Catchmently MCP logo, by Simple Metrics LtdVendor evidenceStreamable HTTPNo sign-inEndpoint checked 2026-11-06Operated by Simple Metrics Ltd
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MCP endpoint (Streamable HTTP)
https://mcp.catchmently.com/mcp
Vendor documentation

What its tools do

5 tools, grouped by the hints the server advertises. Hints are self-declared, not verified behavior.

Read-only (5)

5 of 5 have a description · 5 of 5 declare behavior hints · 4 of 5 with parameters document them all

Checks and signals

Each line is separate evidence, not a trust score.

  • Passed Endpoint answered the live check ·
  • Passed Official MCP Registry namespace is tied to catchmently.com ·
  • Passed Endpoint is on the registry namespace domain ·
  • Availability 1 of 1 checks passed in 30 days

What you can do with it

  • Find schools near a postcode with Ofsted outcomes
  • Retrieve school details like exam results and admissions
  • Check local area stats like flood risk and crime
  • Compare Ofsted reports of schools in an area

Source and maintenance

Vendor evidenceRegistry 0.1.0
mcp-registry: com.catchmently/schools@0.1.0Project website

Protocol and capabilities

Server
catchmently 0.1.0
MCP protocol negotiated in check
2025-11-25
Tools
5 advertised
Resources
Not advertised
Resource templates
Not advertised
Prompts
Not advertised
Server-advertised capabilities
{
  "tools": {
    "listChanged": false
  }
}

Server-provided instructions

Untrusted server output shown for inspection. It is not Koskamo guidance and is excluded from knowledge search.

Catchmently covers schools, nurseries and childcare in England: official register details, Ofsted, exam results, applications and offers, and the last distance offered as councils (or, where a council published none, the school itself) published it. Start from a postcode with search_near_postcode, or a name with find_school, then get_school for one school; get_area describes the area around a full postcode. These four work without signing in. get_school's admissions block gives who sets the admission arrangements, where they are published and the national application and offer dates; the school's own arrangements and the user's home council decide, so point the user to them. Distances Catchmently computes are straight lines from a postcode centre, not walking or council-measured distances. A last distance offered describes one past year's allocation; it is not a catchment, a prediction or a promise of a place, and missing is not zero; tell the user to check with the council before applying. Until 4 January 2027 every figure is free without signing in, including published last distances offered, catchments and the area figures, for up to 50 schools a day per user; a Catchmently pass has no such cap. Without sign-in the server answers 3 requests a minute; signing in is free with any email address and raises that to 20, so when asked, offer the user sign-in. When a result still marks something locked, say so plainly and never guess it. Credit the sources given in each result. Give every distance in miles: use the miles field of each published figure.

Tools

5 advertised

find_school — Find a school by name
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
Advertised read-only

Find schools, nurseries and childcare providers in England by name, optionally narrowed by town, county or postcode (not council or borough names: for "near Lambeth" use search_near_postcode). Returns up to 10 matches with their Catchmently IDs for get_school.

find_school input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "name"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "area": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 60,
      "description": "Optional town, county or postcode (full or district, e.g. SW19) to narrow the matches."
    },
    "name": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 100,
      "minLength": 2,
      "description": "Part of the school or nursery name, e.g. \"St Mary's\"."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}
find_school annotations
{
  "title": "Find a school by name",
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": false,
  "idempotentHint": true,
  "destructiveHint": false
}
search_near_postcode — Schools near a postcode
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
Advertised read-only

List schools, nurseries and childcare near an England postcode (full postcode or district such as SE22), nearest first, by straight-line distance from the postcode centre. Each school shows its latest Ofsted outcome, whether it is selective (grammar) and its religious character from the official register, and whether a last distance offered has been published; the figure itself is shown to signed-in Catchmently pass holders.

search_near_postcode input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "postcode"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "faith": {
      "enum": [
        "any",
        "only",
        "exclude"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "default": "any",
      "description": "Schools with a religious character: \"only\" or \"exclude\", per the official register."
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "default": 10,
      "maximum": 25,
      "minimum": 1
    },
    "phase": {
      "enum": [
        "any",
        "primary",
        "secondary",
        "nursery",
        "other"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "default": "any",
      "description": "Only this kind of school. \"other\" is special, independent and other schools."
    },
    "postcode": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 10,
      "description": "Full postcode (e.g. SE22 8DL) or postcode district (e.g. SE22)."
    },
    "selective": {
      "enum": [
        "any",
        "only",
        "exclude"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "default": "any",
      "description": "Selective (grammar) schools: \"only\" or \"exclude\", per the official register."
    },
    "radius_miles": {
      "type": "number",
      "default": 1,
      "maximum": 3,
      "minimum": 0.1,
      "description": "Straight-line radius in miles, at most 3."
    },
    "published_distance_only": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "default": false,
      "description": "Only schools with a published last distance offered."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}
search_near_postcode annotations
{
  "title": "Schools near a postcode",
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": false,
  "idempotentHint": true,
  "destructiveHint": false
}
get_school — School details
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
Advertised read-only

Details for one school or nursery by Catchmently ID (from find_school or search_near_postcode): register details, latest Ofsted outcome with quoted strengths and areas to improve, exam results, and applications and offers. For a signed-in Catchmently pass holder it also has every published last distance offered and the council catchment or priority area (see get_admission_distances). Give a postcode to add the straight-line distance from it.

get_school input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "school_id"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "postcode": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 10,
      "description": "Optional full postcode to measure the straight-line distance from."
    },
    "school_id": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 50,
      "description": "Catchmently ID, e.g. gias:138342 or ofsted:EY546961."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}
get_school annotations
{
  "title": "School details",
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": false,
  "idempotentHint": true,
  "destructiveHint": false
}
get_area — Area around a postcode
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
Advertised read-only

Area facts for one full England postcode, each with its source, edition and licence: council, ward and constituency; rivers-and-sea flood risk; modelled road, rail and aircraft noise bands; Indices of Deprivation. For signed-in Catchmently pass holders it also has crime by type over 12 months, sold prices (postcode, sector, district), house price index and rents, broadband and mobile coverage, nearest stations and stops, nearest GP, shops and parks, surface-water flood risk and Census 2021 detail; without a pass those are marked locked.

get_area input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "postcode"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "postcode": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 10,
      "description": "Full England postcode, e.g. SE22 8DL."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}
get_area annotations
{
  "title": "Area around a postcode",
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": false,
  "idempotentHint": true,
  "destructiveHint": false
}
get_admission_distances — Last distances offered and catchment
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
Advertised read-only

Every published last distance offered for one school (by entry year and intake, as the council or the school published it, with sources) and the council catchment or priority area. Free without sign-in until 4 January 2027.

get_admission_distances input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "school_id"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "school_id": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 50,
      "description": "Catchmently ID, e.g. gias:138342 or ofsted:EY546961."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}
get_admission_distances annotations
{
  "title": "Last distances offered and catchment",
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": false,
  "idempotentHint": true,
  "destructiveHint": false
}

Prompts

Not advertised

No prompt definitions available.

Resources

Not advertised

No resource definitions available.

90-day uptime

A lightweight connection check about every six hours, sampled on hosts with many listings. It shows the server answered, not that its tools work.

Too few checks for a percentage yet (1 of 1 answered).

  1. 2026-11-07: 1 of 1 checks answered

30-day availability

Aggregated from read-only remote checks; this is not a tool-execution or security guarantee.

Successful checks
1 of 1 (100%)
Average latency
210 ms
95th percentile latency
210 ms

Maintenance history

Public check and source-refresh events. Editorial and ownership records remain private.

  • · probe · passed · 210 ms · metadata changed · 5 tool(s)

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Claude Code

Run this once in a terminal. It registers the remote server. Use --scope project to write .mcp.json for the repo.
Claude Code configuration
claude mcp add --transport http catchmently-mcp https://mcp.catchmently.com/mcp

Codex

Run this once. Codex stores MCP servers in ~/.codex/config.toml (or .codex/config.toml in a trusted project).
Codex configuration
codex mcp add catchmently-mcp --url https://mcp.catchmently.com/mcp

Cursor

Merge this server into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, then enable catchmently-mcp in your MCP settings.
Cursor configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "catchmently-mcp": {
      "url": "https://mcp.catchmently.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Cline

Merge this into cline_mcp_settings.json (Cline → MCP Servers → Configure).
Cline configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "catchmently-mcp": {
      "type": "streamableHttp",
      "url": "https://mcp.catchmently.com/mcp",
      "disabled": false
    }
  }
}

VS Code

Merge this server into .vscode/mcp.json. Use MCP: List Servers to start catchmently-mcp and inspect its tools.
VS Code configuration
{
  "servers": {
    "catchmently-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.catchmently.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Gemini CLI

Run this once. It writes .gemini/settings.json in the current project; pass --scope user for ~/.gemini/settings.json.
Gemini CLI configuration
gemini mcp add --transport http catchmently-mcp https://mcp.catchmently.com/mcp

Claude Desktop

Open Claude Settings > Connectors > Add custom connector, enter this server URL and enable it for the conversation. This is a manual remote-connector handoff, not a desktop JSON configuration.
Claude Desktop configuration
https://mcp.catchmently.com/mcp

Windsurf

Merge this into ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json, then refresh MCP in Cascade. Windsurf remote servers use serverUrl, not url.
Windsurf configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "catchmently-mcp": {
      "serverUrl": "https://mcp.catchmently.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

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