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Didcot, OX11 6BZ · Oxfordshire local authority

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

How full
316 pupils
53% of its 600 places
Free school meals
25%
25 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (30)
The gist

What stands out about UTC Oxfordshire

  • 22% get grade 5 or above in English and maths, 26 points below England’s schools
  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Room to spare: 316 pupils for 600 places
  • Ofsted: Good, December 2023 (shown, not graded)
  • Progress 8 of -0.84 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 (OX11 6) sold for a median £380,995; Didcot’s is £350,000

Results

DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 102 pupils

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

Attainment 8 33.1

Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 2% of schools · Oxfordshire avg 45.6

20304050607080England avg 47.3UTC Oxfordshire 33.1

Grade 5+ in English and maths 22%

A strong pass · higher than 4% of schools · Oxfordshire avg 46%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 47.3%UTC Oxfordshire 22%

Attainment 8, three years

The mark is England’s average that year

2023/24
36
2024/25
32.5
2025/26
33.1

Progress 8, 2023/24

−1 behind0 = national+1 ahead

-0.84: 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 34 pupils DfE counts as disadvantaged (free school meals in the last 6 years, or looked after) and the rest, beside England’s schools

Disadvantaged
27.2England 38.6
Not disadvantaged
36.1England 50.6
Grade 4 or above in English and maths51%
England’s schools 66% · Oxfordshire 64% · 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

290 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
32.1%England 14%
EHC plan
5.2%England 3.2%
English as an additional language
14.5%England 19%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
29.8%England 29.6%

Girls and boys

Girls 27%Boys 73%
Its letter

No letter for UTC Oxfordshire

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, December 2023.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near UTC Oxfordshire

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

Home prices in OX11 6, the school’s postcode sector

Didcot property prices →
£380,995
median sale, 517 sales in 36 months · Didcot £350,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£150K£200K£250K£300K£350K£400K£450K2010201520202025OX11 6Didcot
OX11 6Didcot

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£439K
Semi-detached
£388K
Terraced
£309K
Flat
£225K
OX11 6Didcot

Homes in OX11 6 sell for a little over Didcot’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

12 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNBAB+B+B+AC−A−C−CB+CUTC Oxfordshire
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Didcot, OX11 6BZ

UTC Oxfordshire: common questions

What is UTC Oxfordshire’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Good (December 2023).

How much do houses cost near UTC Oxfordshire?

Homes in its postcode sector, OX11 6, sold for a median £380,995 over the 36 months to August 2026 (517 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; Didcot’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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