UTC · Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
Aylesbury UTC
Digital · Health and Social Care
Part of the England-wide UTC network overseen by the Baker Dearing Educational Trust. All figures below are a point-in-time snapshot (Data gathered and cross-checked in July 2026) — how this was gathered.
At a glance
Official name
Aylesbury UTC
Location
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
University partner
Buckinghamshire New University
Technical specialisms
Digital Health and Social Care
Age range
14 to 19 (Year 9 entry from September 2026, becoming 13 to 19)
Roll (pupils on site)
approx 155 (March 2025)
Capacity
600 places
Opened
2013
URN
139434
Academy trust
Merchant Taylors' Oxfordshire Academy Trust (MTOAT)
Ofsted
Ofsted: Requires improvement (May 2024)
Website
Employer partners
- Cisco
- Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
- Amazon
- Alcom IT
- The Freemantle Trust
- Chiltern Rangers
Notable
- Known as Bucks UTC until a 2022 rebrand to Aylesbury UTC, around the time Merchant Taylors' Oxfordshire Academy Trust took over leadership from the previous governing trust (November 2021)
- £10 million purpose-built building with solar panels; new Health & Social Care suite including a mock triage bay and demonstration home opened in 2023
- Ofsted's May 2024 inspection found it Requires Improvement, flagging weak reading support for struggling pupils outside the specialist digital/health curriculum
- Was operating at roughly a quarter of its 600-place capacity as of early 2025