UTC Plymouth
Plymouth, PL1 4RL · Plymouth local authority
Plymouth’s School Grade B+ better than 72% of towns in England
What stands out about UTC Plymouth
- 24% get grade 5 or above in English and maths, 23 points below England’s schools
- No letter for this school: the reason is below.
- 46% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 30%)
- Ofsted: Good, January 2023 (shown, not graded)
- 97% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (112 of 115)
- Progress 8 of -1.13 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 (PL1 4) sold for a median £164,500; Plymouth’s is £222,500
Results
DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 107 pupilsEach bar is a group of England’s 3,224 graded secondary schools. The schools UTC Plymouth beats are shaded green.
Attainment 8 31.5
Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 1% of schools · Plymouth avg 48.2
Grade 5+ in English and maths 24%
A strong pass · higher than 6% of schools · Plymouth avg 51%
Attainment 8, three years
The mark is England’s average that year
Progress 8, 2023/24
-1.13: 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
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 UTC Plymouth?
97% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2021 (1), 2022 (84), 2023 (24), 2024 (62), 2025 (36), 2026 (3). 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. Reach South Academy Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Plymouth council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand
97% got their first choice
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025594 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 Plymouth
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, January 2023.
Living near UTC Plymouth
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in PL1 4, the school’s postcode sector
Plymouth property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in PL1 4 sell for well under Plymouth’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
27 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Plymouth, PL1 4RL
UTC Plymouth: common questions
How hard is it to get into UTC Plymouth?
For September 2026, 115 families put UTC Plymouth first and 112 of them were offered a place; 115 places were offered in all.
What is UTC Plymouth’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Good (January 2023).
How much do houses cost near UTC Plymouth?
Homes in its postcode sector, PL1 4, sold for a median £164,500 over the 36 months to August 2026 (284 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; Plymouth’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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