London Design and Engineering UTC
Newham, E16 2RD · Newham local authority
Newham’s School Grade A better than 93% of towns in England
What stands out about London Design and Engineering UTC
- No letter for this school: the reason is below.
- Over capacity: 854 pupils for 600 places
- 53% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 30%)
- Ofsted report card, November 2025: achievement strong standard, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
- Progress 8 of -0.38 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 (E16 2) sold for a median £487,500; Newham’s is £447,500
Results
DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 97 pupilsEach bar is a group of England’s 3,224 graded secondary schools. The schools London Design and Engineering UTC beats are shaded green.
Attainment 8 47.7
Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 58% of schools · Newham avg 51
Grade 5+ in English and maths 47%
A strong pass · higher than 56% of schools · Newham avg 54%
Attainment 8, three years
The mark is England’s average that year
Progress 8, 2023/24
-0.38: 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 56 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 2025792 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 London Design and Engineering 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 inspections
Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.
Report card, inspection starting November 2025.
Before the report card: Graded inspection: Good, March 2022.
Living near London Design and Engineering UTC
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in E16 2, the school’s postcode sector
Newham property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in E16 2 sell for a little over Newham’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
25 state schoolsLocation
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London Design and Engineering UTC: common questions
What is London Design and Engineering UTC’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection (November 2025) 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 London Design and Engineering UTC?
Homes in its postcode sector, E16 2, sold for a median £487,500 over the 36 months to August 2026 (1,029 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; Newham’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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