Cheadle(Fire Station) Driving Test Centre

· Staffordshire

54.6%
final pass rate 3,039 tests/year · 7 years of data · DVSA data: 2019-20

Key Statistics

54.6% Overall Pass Rate ▼ -3.5pp
57.9% Male Pass Rate
51.8% Female Pass Rate
10,900 Total Tests (7 years)

Historical Pass Rate Trend

Cheadle(Fire Station) pass rate over 7 years

50% 52% 54% 56% 58% 60% 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2013: 52.0% 2014: 53.1% 2015: 53.1% 2016: 56.1% 2017: 58.3% 2018: 58.1% 2019: 54.6%

Monthly Breakdown (2019-20)

Month Tests Passes Pass Rate Male Rate Female Rate
Apr 251 135 53.8% 58.7% 50.0%
May 276 157 56.9% 57.0% 56.8%
Jun 265 154 58.1% 60.8% 55.6%
Jul 298 176 59.1% 68.6% 50.6%
Aug 254 146 57.5% 58.7% 56.4%
Sep 272 145 53.3% 52.9% 53.6%
Oct 309 189 61.2% 66.4% 56.3%
Nov 281 144 51.2% 48.5% 53.6%
Dec 200 92 46.0% 53.5% 38.4%
Jan 262 125 47.7% 50.0% 46.2%
Feb 256 136 53.1% 54.5% 52.3%
Mar 115 60 52.2% 63.0% 44.9%

Gender Comparison

Male candidates pass at a 6.1pp higher rate than female candidates at Cheadle(Fire Station).

45% 49% 53% 57% 61% 65% 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2013: 49.0% 2014: 48.7% 2015: 51.4% 2016: 52.9% 2017: 55.1% 2018: 55.6% 2019: 51.8% 2013: 55.8% 2014: 59.3% 2015: 55.8% 2016: 60.7% 2017: 63.7% 2018: 61.9% 2019: 57.9%
Male Female

Pass Rate by Age

How do different age groups perform at Cheadle(Fire Station)? The chart below shows pass rates for candidates aged 17 to 25, who account for 2,251 of the tests conducted here.

17: 63.8% 18: 51.2% 19: 48.5% 20: 62.2% 21: 56.4% 22: 49.4% 23: 56.0% 24: 52.9% 25: 56.2% 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
Age of candidate at test

17-year-olds have the highest pass rate at Cheadle(Fire Station) with 63.8% from 813 tests, while 19-year-olds have the lowest at 48.5%. This is unusual. Nationally, 17-year-olds often have lower pass rates due to less driving experience.

AgeTestsPass RateMale RateFemale Rate
1781363.8%65.2%62.7%
1844351.2%54.2%48.5%
1926448.5%51.6%45.6%
2014362.2%66.2%58.0%
2113356.4%50.8%61.4%
2217049.4%48.8%50.0%
2310956.0%56.0%55.9%
248752.9%74.2%41.1%
258956.2%62.5%52.6%

Automatic vs Manual

50.4%Automatic Pass Rate
54.6%Overall Pass Rate
248Auto Tests/Year

At Cheadle(Fire Station), the automatic test pass rate is 50.4%, which is 4.2 percentage points lower than the overall pass rate of 54.6%. 248 automatic tests were conducted here in the latest year.

Male automatic candidates pass at 54.5% compared to 49.2% for females.

Automatic vs overall pass rate trend

25% 32% 39% 46% 53% 60% 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2013: 52.0% 2014: 53.1% 2015: 53.1% 2016: 56.1% 2017: 58.3% 2018: 58.1% 2019: 54.6% 2013: 41.2% 2014: 26.1% 2015: 45.9% 2016: 40.9% 2017: 56.9% 2018: 51.1% 2019: 50.4%
Automatic Overall

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