Greater Peterborough UTC
Peterborough, PE1 4DZ · Peterborough local authority
Peterborough’s School Grade C better than 28% of towns in England
What stands out about Greater Peterborough UTC
- No letter for this school: the reason is below.
- Ofsted: Good, October 2022 (shown, not graded)
- 64% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (50 of 78)
- Progress 8 of -0.67 in 2023/24, the last year DfE published it: pupils did less well at GCSE than pupils nationally with the same results at 11
- Homes in its postcode sector (PE1 4) sold for a median £220,000; Peterborough’s is £240,000
Results
DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 76 pupilsEach bar is a group of England’s 3,224 graded secondary schools. The schools Greater Peterborough UTC beats are shaded green.
Attainment 8 46.7
Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 53% of schools · Peterborough avg 45
Grade 5+ in English and maths 49%
A strong pass · higher than 59% of schools · Peterborough avg 41%
Attainment 8, three years
The mark is England’s average that year
Progress 8, 2023/24
-0.67: below average. How pupils did at GCSE against pupils nationally with the same results at 11. Not published since 2023/24 (no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021).
Disadvantaged pupils, 2025/26
Attainment 8 for the 27 pupils DfE counts as disadvantaged (free school meals in the last 6 years, or looked after) and the rest, beside England’s schools
England’s figures are of its graded mainstream state schools, each school counted once; grammar schools are included, which is why the right-hand tail is long. Small cohorts are suppressed.
How hard is it to get a place at Greater Peterborough UTC?
64% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2022 (48), 2023 (13), 2024 (32), 2025 (35), 2026 (28). The council runs the coordinated admissions; each school’s rules (siblings, distance, faith) decide who gets in. DfE doesn’t publish the furthest distance offered, so check the council’s admissions booklet for that. Meridian Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Peterborough council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand
64% got their first choice
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025470 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.
Girls and boys
No letter for Greater Peterborough UTC
UTCs and studio schools aren’t given a letter: they take pupils at 14 from a wide area, so their GCSE results don’t compare with schools that teach from 11.
Letters go to England’s open mainstream state schools with published Key Stage 2 or GCSE results (grammar schools included), each against the schools of its own phase.
Ofsted inspections
Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.
Graded inspection: Good, October 2022.
Living near Greater Peterborough UTC
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in PE1 4, the school’s postcode sector
Peterborough property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in PE1 4 sell for a little under Peterborough’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.
Schools within 1.6 miles
21 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Peterborough, PE1 4DZ
Greater Peterborough UTC: common questions
How hard is it to get into Greater Peterborough UTC?
For September 2026, 78 families put Greater Peterborough UTC first and 50 of them were offered a place; 60 places were offered in all.
What is Greater Peterborough UTC’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Good (October 2022).
How much do houses cost near Greater Peterborough UTC?
Homes in its postcode sector, PE1 4, sold for a median £220,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (375 sales).
Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.
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