School profile
Waterfront UTC
South Side Three Road, Chatham, Kent, ME4 4FQ
Overview
Waterfront UTC is a state-funded school (university technical college) in Chatham, South East, for pupils aged 14–19. This summary is generated only from official structured fields.
School details
- Official establishment type
- University technical college
- Establishment group
- Free Schools
- Phase of education
- Secondary
- Age range
- Ages 14–19
- Gender of entry
- Mixed
- Sixth form
- Yes
- School capacity
- 250
- Pupils on roll
- 381
- URN
- 146648
Admissions
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Local authority
- Medway
- Academy trust or group
- THE HOWARD ACADEMY TRUST
Contact the school or your local authority for catchment and application deadlines.
School places
DfE school capacity survey · May 2025 (2024/25)
- Capacity at survey date
- 600
- Pupils on roll
- 358
- Unfilled places at survey date
- 242
A dated snapshot from the Department for Education school capacity survey, separate from the school details above. Unfilled places at the survey date do not mean places are currently available for admission. About this data
Official performance data
School performance
Official Department for Education results for this school. Results are shown for the academic year they relate to.
2024/25 results
Attainment 8 score
- School
- 30
- England
- 47.1
Pupils included: 75
Grade 5 or above in English & maths
- School
- 20%
- England
- 46.5%
Pupils included: 75
Grade 4 or above in English & maths
- School
- 37.3%
- England
- 66.4%
Pupils included: 75
Entering the EBacc
- School
- 0%
- England
- 41.5%
Pupils included: 75
Progress 8 was not published for 2024/25.
Source: Department for Education · School performance data.
Official inspection data
Ofsted inspections
Inspection information published by Ofsted, shown in Ofsted's own words.
Ofsted inspection
Inspected 10 January 2023 · Published 1 March 2023
Original education inspection framework (September 2019 to August 2024)
Overall effectiveness
Good
This is a historical Ofsted judgement given under the previous inspection framework. It is not a School Nest rating.
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Effectiveness of leadership and management
- Good
- Safeguarding was effective
- Yes
- Sixth form provision (where applicable)
- Good
Ofsted changed how it inspects and reports on schools in November 2025. Judgements from the previous and current frameworks use different systems and should not be directly compared.
School Nest shows the inspection information Ofsted currently publishes for this school. It is not a complete record of every inspection the school has ever had.
Source: Ofsted · Inspections and outcomes. Official Ofsted page for this school
Location
- Address
- South Side Three Road, Chatham, Kent, ME4 4FQ
- Local authority
- Medway
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