Nearby Schools

Nearby schools Plugin adds a box to property details featuring all nearby schools found in the proximity to a property that the user is viewing. The schools are grouped based on rating, test scores, grade level, distance from a given property and other factors.

How it works

The Nearby Schools plugin enriches real estate listings on your real estate portal by displaying nearby educational institutions, leveraging data from GreatSchools. This prominent US rating service helps parents compare schools based on various factors. For UK users, the plugin integrates a PropertyData service that provides data about great schools in Great Britain, enhancing property value and aiding potential buyers to make informed decisions.

This plugin caches all query results, ensuring that the additional data does not impact your website's speed, maintaining efficient site performance while providing valuable information.

Front End

When a user views property details, along with a property description and photos, he will see a box showing schools located in the neighborhood of the viewed property. The box will show a number of schools in the area and their rating. The information in a box is clickable and a user may follow a link and navigate to the service to obtain more detailed information on the given school.

The service encompasses 200,000+ public and private schools and over one million community reviews with feedback from parents, teachers and students.

Back End

Once you activate the Plugin, you’ll be able to further configure it from admin panel. To start with, you may set the radius within which the schools will be shown. You’ll also be able to set the number of schools to be featured in a box. This configuration will limit the number of schools shown in a box on a property details page, the remaining schools will be hidden from the user and he’ll need to click –view more- to navigate to them. This means that the box will look compact even when there are many schools found in the area.

Since the Plugin derives information from GreatSchools – a US based School rating agency, it is primarily intended for real estate sites targeting the US real estate market.