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UTC Heathrow

SecondaryAges 14–19University technical collegeSixth form

Hillingdon, HA6 1QG · Hillingdon local authority

Hillingdon’s School Grade A− better than 83% of towns in England

How full
240 pupils
40% of its 600 places
Free school meals
32%
32 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (30)
The gist

What stands out about UTC Heathrow

  • 11% get grade 5 or above in English and maths, 37 points below England’s schools
  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Room to spare: 240 pupils for 600 places
  • Ofsted: Good, February 2023 (shown, not graded)
  • Progress 8 of -1.61 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 (HA6 1) sold for a median £650,000; Hillingdon’s is £500,000

Results

DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 37 pupils

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

Attainment 8 28.6

Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 0% of schools · Hillingdon avg 49.7

20304050607080England avg 47.3UTC Heathrow 28.6

Grade 5+ in English and maths 11%

A strong pass · higher than 0% of schools · Hillingdon avg 52%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 47.3%UTC Heathrow 11%

Attainment 8, three years

The mark is England’s average that year

2023/24
30.3
2024/25
32.2
2025/26
28.6

Progress 8, 2023/24

−1 behind0 = national+1 ahead

-1.61: 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 16 pupils DfE counts as disadvantaged (free school meals in the last 6 years, or looked after) and the rest, beside England’s schools

Disadvantaged
25.5England 38.6
Not disadvantaged
30.9England 50.6
Grade 4 or above in English and maths32%
England’s schools 66% · Hillingdon 71% · 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

249 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
10.4%England 14%
EHC plan
3.6%England 3.2%
English as an additional language
8%England 19%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
42.4%England 29.6%

Girls and boys

Girls 11%Boys 89%
Its letter

No letter for UTC Heathrow

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, February 2023.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near UTC Heathrow

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

Home prices in HA6 1, the school’s postcode sector

Hillingdon property prices →
£650,000
median sale, 213 sales in 36 months · Hillingdon £500,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£200K£300K£400K£500K£600K£700K£800K2010201520202025HA6 1Hillingdon
HA6 1Hillingdon

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£750K
Semi-detached
£700K
Terraced
£550K
Flat
£300K
HA6 1Hillingdon

Homes in HA6 1 sell for well over Hillingdon’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

15 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNA+ABBA−BB−D−BABAC+UTC Heathrow
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Hillingdon, HA6 1QG

UTC Heathrow: common questions

What is UTC Heathrow’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Good (February 2023).

How much do houses cost near UTC Heathrow?

Homes in its postcode sector, HA6 1, sold for a median £650,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (213 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; Hillingdon’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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