WMG Academy for Young Engineers
Coventry, CV4 8DY · Coventry local authority
Coventry’s School Grade C+ better than 38% of towns in England
What stands out about WMG Academy for Young Engineers
- No letter for this school: the reason is below.
- Ofsted: Good, June 2022 (shown, not graded)
- Progress 8 of -0.44 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 (CV4 8) sold for a median £265,000; Coventry’s is £225,000
Results
DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 119 pupilsEach bar is a group of England’s 3,224 graded secondary schools. The schools WMG Academy for Young Engineers beats are shaded green.
Attainment 8 43.6
Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 36% of schools · Coventry avg 44.6
Grade 5+ in English and maths 40%
A strong pass · higher than 37% of schools · Coventry avg 44%
Attainment 8, three years
The mark is England’s average that year
Progress 8, 2023/24
-0.44: 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 27 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 2025510 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 WMG Academy for Young Engineers
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.
Ungraded inspection: School remains Good, June 2022.
Living near WMG Academy for Young Engineers
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in CV4 8, the school’s postcode sector
Coventry property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in CV4 8 sell for well over Coventry’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 schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Coventry, CV4 8DY
WMG Academy for Young Engineers: common questions
What is WMG Academy for Young Engineers’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Good (June 2022).
How much do houses cost near WMG Academy for Young Engineers?
Homes in its postcode sector, CV4 8, sold for a median £265,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (238 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; Coventry’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.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.