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Energy Coast UTC

Energy Coast UTC

SecondaryAges 14–19University technical collegeSixth form

Winscales, CA14 4JW · Cumberland local authority

Winscales’s Schools page →

Photo: TastyTastyFish · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
How full
383 pupils
68% of its 560 places
Free school meals
33%
33 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (30)
The gist

What stands out about Energy Coast UTC

  • 9% get grade 5 or above in English and maths, 38 points below England’s schools
  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Room to spare: 383 pupils for 560 places
  • Ofsted: Good, March 2023 (shown, not graded)
  • Progress 8 of -1.60 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 (CA14 4) sold for a median £220,000; Winscales’s is £0

Results

DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 108 pupils

Each bar is a group of England’s 3,224 graded secondary schools. The schools Energy Coast UTC beats are shaded green.

Attainment 8 22.5

Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 0% of schools · Cumberland avg 41.3

20304050607080England avg 47.3Energy Coast UTC 22.5

Grade 5+ in English and maths 9%

A strong pass · higher than 0% of schools · Cumberland avg 33%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 47.3%Energy Coast UTC 9%

Attainment 8, three years

The mark is England’s average that year

2023/24
27.5
2024/25
24.2
2025/26
22.5

Progress 8, 2023/24

−1 behind0 = national+1 ahead

-1.60: 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 42 pupils DfE counts as disadvantaged (free school meals in the last 6 years, or looked after) and the rest, beside England’s schools

Disadvantaged
19.5England 38.6
Not disadvantaged
24.4England 50.6
Grade 4 or above in English and maths28%
England’s schools 66% · Cumberland 55% · a standard pass

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 2025

387 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.

SEN support
0.8%England 14%
EHC plan
4.7%England 3.2%
English as an additional language
0.3%England 19%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
33%England 29.6%

Girls and boys

Girls 34%Boys 66%
Its letter

No letter for Energy Coast 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

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Graded inspection: Good, March 2023.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Energy Coast UTC

For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.

Home prices in CA14 4, the school’s postcode sector

Winscales property prices →
£220,000
median sale, 454 sales in 36 months

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£150K£200K£250K2010201520202025CA14 4
CA14 4Winscales

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£301K
Semi-detached
£200K
Terraced
£110K
Flat
£75K
CA14 4Winscales

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

4 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNB−DB−DEnergy Coast UTC
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Winscales, CA14 4JW

Energy Coast UTC: common questions

What is Energy Coast UTC’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Good (March 2023).

How much do houses cost near Energy Coast UTC?

Homes in its postcode sector, CA14 4, sold for a median £220,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (454 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; Winscales’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.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.