Leigh UTC Dartford
Dartford, DA1 5TF · Kent local authority
Dartford’s School Grade A+ better than 95% of towns in England
What stands out about Leigh UTC Dartford
- 36% get grade 5 or above in English and maths, 12 points below England’s schools
- No letter for this school: the reason is below.
- Room to spare: 691 pupils for 960 places
- Ofsted report card, June 2026: achievement strong standard, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
- Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (91 of 91)
- Progress 8 of -0.35 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 (DA1 5) sold for a median £330,000; Dartford’s is £363,000
Results
DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 121 pupilsEach bar is a group of England’s 3,224 graded secondary schools. The schools Leigh UTC Dartford beats are shaded green.
Attainment 8 41.3
Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 24% of schools · Kent avg 48.6
Grade 5+ in English and maths 36%
A strong pass · higher than 25% of schools · Kent avg 49%
Attainment 8, three years
The mark is England’s average that year
Progress 8, 2023/24
-0.35: 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 48 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 Leigh UTC Dartford?
Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (11), 2022 (1). 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. Leigh Academies Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Kent council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places
100% got their first choice
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025689 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 Leigh UTC Dartford
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.
Report card, inspection starting June 2026.
Before the report card: Graded inspection: Good, May 2022.
Living near Leigh UTC Dartford
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in DA1 5, the school’s postcode sector
Dartford property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in DA1 5 sell for a little under Dartford’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
17 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Dartford, DA1 5TF
Leigh UTC Dartford: common questions
How hard is it to get into Leigh UTC Dartford?
For September 2026, 91 families put Leigh UTC Dartford first and all of them were offered a place; 119 places were offered in all.
What is Leigh UTC Dartford’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection (June 2026) gave a report card: achievement strong standard, safeguarding met. Ofsted stopped giving one-word overall grades in September 2024.
How much do houses cost near Leigh UTC Dartford?
Homes in its postcode sector, DA1 5, sold for a median £330,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (554 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; Dartford’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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