Isleworth (Fleming Way) test centre: 50.4% pass rate, £420 to get through it.

Over 2025/26 the examiners at Isleworth (Fleming Way) conducted 12,687 car practical tests and issued 6,388 passes. The resulting 50.4% makes it a high-volume centre sitting 194th of 308 on the national pass-rate table and 12th of 26 in London.

That lands within 0.3 percentage points of the 50.03% national figure and 1.6 points above the 48.8% London average, which makes Isleworth (Fleming Way) an ordinary centre on the DVSA table and puts the cost question back on preparation rather than location.

Turn 50.4% into money. One divided by the pass rate gives 1.99 expected attempts before a first pass, so the average candidate at Isleworth (Fleming Way) pays the £62 weekday DVSA fee about 1.99 times, or £123. Add 0.99 expected retakes at 7 hours of extra tuition each, charged at the London rate of £43 an hour, and the extra lessons come to £297. The test cycle at Isleworth (Fleming Way) is therefore about £420. That is within £5 of what the same cycle costs at a centre on the national average, so Isleworth (Fleming Way) is close to cost-neutral as a choice.

A fail at Isleworth (Fleming Way) costs time as well as money. The median wait between booking and testing was 16.3 weeks in July 2026, 4.4 weeks above the 11.9-week national median. At 0.99 expected retakes that is about 16.1 weeks of additional queueing, and most learners keep paying for an hour or two a month through it. In the same month DVSA offered 4,464 standard slots inside the booking window here and 5.3% of them were still free to book.

First attempts track the headline closely: 3,437 passes from 6,921 first tests at Isleworth (Fleming Way), 49.7% against 50.4% for all attempts. 91 of those first tests were passed with no driving faults recorded at all, 1.31% of them.

Since 2021/22 the pass rate at Isleworth (Fleming Way) has risen by 2.0 points, from 48.4% to 50.4%. Volume has been steady, 12,613 tests then against 12,687 now. On the cost model above, that shift alone is worth about £29 to the average candidate.

Male candidates passed at 52.3% and female candidates at 48.0%, a gap of 4.2 points across 6,981 and 5,706 tests. Automatic tests made up 43.9% of the workload and passed at 47.8%, 2.6 points below the manual-inclusive rate, worth knowing before paying the automatic lesson premium. Month to month the rate ran from 48.0% in June 2025 to 54.3% in April 2025, a 6.4-point swing that shows how little a single month proves.

None of the similarly sized centres in London runs more than five points ahead of Isleworth (Fleming Way) on pass rate, so travelling elsewhere is unlikely to pay for itself once you add an unfamiliar route, the travel and the settling-in lessons. The cheaper lever here is preparation on the roads your instructor already knows.