Cheltenham Driving Test Centre 2026 Map & Pass Rates

Cheltenham Driving Test Centre

📍 Cheltenham Gloucestershire South West England

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Overall pass rate, 2025/2026

National average 48.7% · this centre is 5.5pts below

The national average is combined from all the test centres where Veygo has data from gov.uk in 2025/2026.

About Cheltenham driving test centre

Welcome learner driver! This page provides information about Cheltenham driving test centre in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, South West England. On this page you will find data from gov.uk about the pass rates for Cheltenham across demographics, vehicle types, number of attempts, and age. You can find the map location for the test centre and directions here.

Latest DVSA data, 2025/2026

43.2%

Overall pass rate i

42.9%

First-attempt pass rate i

First-time faultless passes i

5,161

Tests conducted i

Transmission type

⚙️ Automatic vs manual for Cheltenham

Pass rates for automatic and manual car tests, side by side across five years.

For Cheltenham in 2025/2026, the manual pass rate was 45.1% compared with 35.6% for automatic tests, a difference of 9.5 percentage points.

Source: DVSA driving test data, published on gov.uk.

First-time candidates

🎯 First-attempt performance for Cheltenham

How first-time candidates perform, including the rate of faultless passes over time.

First-time candidates at Cheltenham passed at 42.9% in 2025/2026, which is 0.3 percentage points lower than the overall pass rate of 43.2%.

Source: DVSA driving test data, published on gov.uk.

By candidate age

🎂 Pass rate by age for Cheltenham

How pass rates vary by candidate age, from 17 to 25, in the latest year of data.

At Cheltenham in 2025/2026, 17-year-old candidates recorded the highest pass rate at 51.4%. Pass rates generally shift with age, and this chart shows how each age from 17 to 25 performed.

Source: DVSA driving test data, published on gov.uk.

Performance over time

🧑🏿‍🤝‍🧑🏼 Pass rate by gender for Cheltenham

How male and female pass rates at this centre have changed over the last five years.

In Cheltenham for the latest year of data (2025/2026), the male pass rate was 44.6%, which is 2.8 percentage points higher than the female pass rate of 41.8%.

Source: DVSA driving test data, published on gov.uk.

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