School and MSP cost review coverage: Darlington (DL)
This hub indexes every Edunet Portal review page for the DL postcode area. Darlington's education estate covers 213 open state-funded schools — 156 primary and 25 secondary — with around 50,000 pupils on roll, administered by County Durham, Darlington, North Yorkshire. 109 of those schools (51%) sit inside multi-academy trusts, which shapes how contracts for connectivity, energy, ICT and support are negotiated: trust members often buy centrally, while the remaining schools procure independently through their own business managers.
School review pages below compare a selected school's recorded spend against 2024-25 Department for Education benchmark records for comparable schools. MSP pages give suppliers serving Darlington education customers benchmark tools for quoting, procurement context and sales capacity. Every figure shown on a review page is indicative and clearly caveated — nothing is presented as a confirmed saving.
Review pages for the DL area
- 1000mbps Annual Quote for MSPs serving Darlington education
- Education Procurement for MSPs serving Darlington education
- Quote Delay Cost Calculator for MSPs serving Darlington education
- Sales Capacity for MSPs serving Darlington education
- Supplier Response Time for MSPs serving Darlington education
- Broadband review for schools in Darlington
- Energy review for schools in Darlington
- Ict Spend review for schools in Darlington
- Safeguarding Filtering review for schools in Darlington
- Telecoms Voip review for schools in Darlington
What the school data shows for DL
The public GIAS-derived feed behind these pages puts the average Darlington school at 233 pupils, with secondary settings averaging 799 on roll — the profiles that drive the largest connectivity, energy and premises spend. 104 schools in the area procure independently, while 109 buy through one of 24 multi-academy trusts operating locally, the largest being BISHOP HOGARTH CATHOLIC EDUCATION TRUST (16 schools), ADVANCE LEARNING PARTNERSHIP (15 schools), DALES ACADEMIES TRUST (13 schools).
For a school business manager in Darlington, that mix determines which benchmark peer group applies: reviews on this site always compare a school against similar-phase, similar-size settings rather than an area average. For an MSP, the same numbers describe the shape of the addressable market — how many buying conversations exist in DL, and how many route through a trust head office instead of a school reception. Figures refresh with the published school feed and describe the local landscape only; nothing is specific to an individual school until one is selected on a review page.
Adjacent coverage areas
Schools and MSPs near the edge of the DL area may find their nearest reviewed towns in a neighbouring postcode area: