Aylesbury UTC

Secondary · Aylesbury · HP21 8PB

Requires improvement

Graded inspection under the pre-November 2025 system

This is an overall-effectiveness grade from the previous inspection framework. The school has not yet had a report-card inspection.

Quality of education: Requires improvementBehaviour & attitudes: Requires improvementPersonal development: Requires improvementLeadership & management: Requires improvementSafeguarding effective: Yes

Inspected 14 May 2024

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At a glance

128 pupils · 21% of 600 capacity

School type: University technical college
Age range: 14–19
Gender: Mixed
Admissions: Non-selective
Free school meals: 45.8% of pupils
English as additional language: 15.9% of pupils
SEN support: 16.6% of pupils
EHC plan: 5.5% of pupils
Sixth form: Yes
Website: http://www.aylesburyutc.co.uk/
URN: 139434

GCSE results (2024/2025)

57 pupils at the end of key stage 4 in 2024/2025

Attainment 8 score

23.8

England 46.1

Grade 4 or above in English & maths GCSEs

28.1%

England 64.8%

Grade 5 or above in English & maths GCSEs

14%

England 45.4%

EBacc average point score

1.8

England 4.1

Progress 8 is suspended nationally for 2024/25 and 2025/26. These cohorts sat no key stage 2 tests (COVID), so there is no baseline to measure progress from.

A-level results (2024/2025)

A-level points per entry (England: 35 ≈ B-) U

2.9

England 35

Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.

Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)

Sessions missed (overall absence)

19.5%

England 6.5%

Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)

58.5%

England 18.1%

Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.

Staffing

Pupils per qualified teacher

England 18.5

Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.

Teacher retention (2024/25)

56% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 44% left the state-funded sector

School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.

Where pupils go after GCSEs

In sustained education, work or training

83%

Continuing in education

68%

Apprenticeship

Employment

Where students go after sixth form

To university / higher education

40%

Apprenticeship

Employment

47%

Any sustained destination

87%

Destinations measured the year after leaving, latest DfE destination measures release.

Inspection history since 2015

14 May 2024: Requires improvement (graded inspection)
22 March 2022: Requires improvement (graded inspection)
16 March 2021: Requires Improvement monitoring Visit 2
9 July 2019: Taking effective action to tackle the areas requiring improvement (ungraded inspection)
23 January 2018: Requires improvement (graded inspection)
16 January 2017: Taking effective action to tackle the areas requiring improvement (ungraded inspection)
12 January 2016: Requires improvement (graded inspection)

Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.

Nearby schools

Sir Henry Floyd Grammar SchoolOutstanding · Secondary · 0.1 mi
Bearbrook Combined SchoolGood · Primary · 0.1 mi
Pebble Brook SchoolGood · Special / other · 0.2 mi
Oak Green SchoolNot yet graded · Primary · 0.4 mi
St Mary's Church of England SchoolNot yet graded · Primary · 0.5 mi
Haydon Abbey School and Pre-SchoolRequires improvement · Primary · 0.8 mi
The Buckinghamshire Primary Pupil Referral UnitOutstanding · Special / other · 0.8 mi
The Pace CentreNot yet graded · Special / other · 0.9 mi

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