Catchmently MCP Server

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answering

Catchmently is answering right now. Last checked 14 min ago. It exposes 5 tools.

England's schools and nurseries: Ofsted, exam results, offers and last distance offered.

Uptime history 6 days of history

6 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

140 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Catchmently every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 14 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add schools --transport http https://mcp.catchmently.com/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://mcp.catchmently.com/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.schools]
url = "https://mcp.catchmently.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "schools": {
      "url": "https://mcp.catchmently.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "schools": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.catchmently.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 5

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

school

find_school

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.

get_school

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.

admission

get_admission_distances

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.

area

get_area

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.

near

search_near_postcode

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.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://mcp.catchmently.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	166 ms	14 min ago

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Catchmently — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Catchmently do?

It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: find_school, get_admission_distances, get_area, get_school, search_near_postcode. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is Catchmently working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 140 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Catchmently?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Catchmently need an API key?

No. Catchmently completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Catchmently?

It answers our handshake in 140 ms on average, which is faster than 85% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.