UTC South Durham
Newton Aycliffe, DL5 6AP · County Durham local authority
Newton Aycliffe’s School Grade C better than 33% of towns in England
What stands out about UTC South Durham
- 18% get grade 5 or above in English and maths, 30 points below England’s schools
- No letter for this school: the reason is below.
- Room to spare: 421 pupils for 600 places
- Ofsted: Good, March 2024 (shown, not graded)
- Progress 8 of -0.99 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 (DL5 6) sold for a median £259,500; Newton Aycliffe’s is £140,000
Results
DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 154 pupilsEach bar is a group of England’s 3,224 graded secondary schools. The schools UTC South Durham beats are shaded green.
Attainment 8 33.4
Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 3% of schools · County Durham avg 47.4
Grade 5+ in English and maths 18%
A strong pass · higher than 2% of schools · County Durham avg 46%
Attainment 8, three years
The mark is England’s average that year
Progress 8, 2023/24
-0.99: 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 61 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.
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025450 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 UTC South Durham
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, March 2024.
Living near UTC South Durham
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in DL5 6, the school’s postcode sector
Newton Aycliffe property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in DL5 6 sell for well over Newton Aycliffe’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
2 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Newton Aycliffe, DL5 6AP
UTC South Durham: common questions
What is UTC South Durham’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Good (March 2024).
How much do houses cost near UTC South Durham?
Homes in its postcode sector, DL5 6, sold for a median £259,500 over the 36 months to August 2026 (171 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.
A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Newton Aycliffe’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
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