Catchment Checker

Catchment Checker provides a school catchment area checking tool and map for England, explaining how councils publish maps and how admission criteria and oversubscription affect school placements. It offers guidance on finding catchment maps, understanding decision factors, and navigating waiting lists and appeals.

Catchment Checker publishes 2 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network: Guide API and MCP API. Tagged areas include Education, United Kingdom, Schools, Catchment, and Mapping.

The Catchment Checker catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Catchment Checker’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, and 22 more developer resources.

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28.3/100 thin Agent 26/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

1 published contract 1 MCP Servers

Education United Kingdom Schools Catchment Mapping

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 28.3/100 · thin

Contract Quality 10.1 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 2.8 / 17

Access Clarity 1.8 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.6 / 11

Contract Governance 2.2 / 10

Discoverability 5.5 / 9

Regulatory Posture 4.0 / 15

Agent readiness — 26/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Education & Research regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)

7 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 10.5 — up to +17.9 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 16.7 — up to +16.7 composite points
Contract Quality scores 47.4 — up to +13.2 composite points

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Standards implemented 2

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (documented)

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Catchment Checker Guide API

checker

Catchment Checker MCP API

The mcp API from Catchment Checker — 1 operation(s) for mcp.

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Catchment Checker MCP Server

Remote MCP server at catchmentchecker.co.uk.

MCP SERVER

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Catchment Checker API Rules

48 rules · 43 errors 1 warnings 4 info

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Catchmentchecker Co Uk Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Catchmentchecker Co Uk Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Catchmentchecker Co Uk Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Catchmentchecker Co Uk Agentic Access

5 operations · 4 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Documentation

Documentation

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

LLMsTxt

MCPServer

WellKnown

Design & Contract 4

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Spectral

Vocabulary

ErrorCatalog

Conformance

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

ToolCrosswalk

ToolCrosswalk

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Security

Security

SecurityTxt

SecurityTxt

Authentication

Authentication

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Contact

Contact

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

About

About

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Hosts

Hosts

Vendors

Vendors

Source (apis.yml)

aid: catchmentchecker-co-uk
name: Catchment Checker
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://catchmentchecker.co.uk/og.png
description: Catchment Checker provides a school catchment area checking tool and map for England, explaining how councils
  publish maps and how admission criteria and oversubscription affect school placements. It offers guidance on finding catchment
  maps, understanding decision factors, and navigating waiting lists and appeals.
url: https://artifacts.apis.io/catchmentchecker-co-uk/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:mcp-registry
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-11-04 (modular-v1; was harvest)
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-11-04'
modified: '2026-11-04'
tags:
- Education
- United Kingdom
- Schools
- Catchment
- Mapping
tags_raw:
- Education
- UK
- Schools
- Catchment
- Mapping
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/catchmentchecker-co-uk-agentic-access.yml
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/catchmentchecker-co-uk-rules.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/catchmentchecker-co-uk-vocabulary.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://catchmentchecker.co.uk/terms
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/catchmentchecker-co-uk-problem-types.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/catchmentchecker-co-uk-conformance.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/catchmentchecker-co-uk-llms.txt
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/catchmentchecker-co-uk-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/catchmentchecker-co-uk-mcp.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/catchmentchecker-co-uk-security.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/catchmentchecker-co-uk-well-known.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/catchmentchecker-co-uk-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/catchmentchecker-co-uk-vendors.yml
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://catchmentchecker.co.uk/terms/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://catchmentchecker.co.uk/privacy/
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/catchmentchecker-co-uk-authentication.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/catchmentchecker-co-uk-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/catchmentchecker-co-uk-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://catchmentchecker.co.uk/
- type: About
  url: https://catchmentchecker.co.uk/about/
- type: Contact
  url: https://catchmentchecker.co.uk/contact/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://catchmentchecker.co.uk/how-school-places-are-decided/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://catchmentchecker.co.uk/school-catchment-area-map/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://catchmentchecker.co.uk/waiting-lists-and-appeals/
apis:
- aid: catchmentchecker-co-uk:catchmentchecker-co-uk-guide-api
  name: Catchment Checker Guide API
  description: checker
  humanURL: https://catchmentchecker.co.uk/
  baseURL: https://catchmentchecker.co.uk
  tags:
  - guide
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/catchmentchecker-co-uk-guide-api-openapi.yml
- aid: catchmentchecker-co-uk:catchmentchecker-co-uk-mcp-api
  name: Catchment Checker MCP API
  description: The mcp API from Catchment Checker — 1 operation(s) for mcp.
  humanURL: https://catchmentchecker.co.uk/
  baseURL: https://catchmentchecker.co.uk
  tags:
  - MCP
  tags_raw:
  - mcp
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/catchmentchecker-co-uk-mcp-api-openapi.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-11-04'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 21
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=local,contract=local,surfaces=local,docs=local,regulatory=local

Catchment Checker API — frequently asked questions

Does Catchment Checker have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from Catchment Checker, including Catchment Checker Guide API and Catchment Checker MCP API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Catchment Checker API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 2 OpenAPI specifications for Catchment Checker, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Catchment Checker API?

Catchment Checker uses bearer-token authentication (http · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Catchmentchecker Co Uk Authentication.

Does Catchment Checker have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Catchment Checker: Remote MCP server at catchmentchecker.co.uk.

Is the Catchment Checker API ready for AI agents?

Catchment Checker has a Kin Score of 28.3 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 25.9 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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