Leeds (Colton Mill) test centre: 51.8% pass rate, £328 to get through it.

Over 2025/26 the examiners at Leeds (Colton Mill) conducted 6,432 car practical tests and issued 3,332 passes. The resulting 51.8% makes it a mid-sized centre sitting 158th of 308 on the national pass-rate table and 15th of 29 in Yorkshire and The Humber.

That lands within 1.8 percentage points of the 50.03% national figure and 1.3 points above the 50.5% Yorkshire and The Humber average, which makes Leeds (Colton Mill) an ordinary centre on the DVSA table and puts the cost question back on preparation rather than location.

Turn 51.8% into money. One divided by the pass rate gives 1.93 expected attempts before a first pass, so the average candidate at Leeds (Colton Mill) pays the £62 weekday DVSA fee about 1.93 times, or £120. Add 0.93 expected retakes at 7 hours of extra tuition each, charged at the Yorkshire & Humber rate of £32 an hour, and the extra lessons come to £208. The test cycle at Leeds (Colton Mill) is therefore about £328. Testing here therefore saves about £20 against a centre sitting on the 50.03% national average, because the higher pass rate buys back part of an attempt.

Waiting time at Leeds (Colton Mill) ran to a median 8.4 weeks between booking and test in July 2026, 3.5 weeks below the 11.9-week national median. Across 0.93 expected retakes that is roughly 7.8 weeks of extra queueing before a licence arrives. In the same month DVSA offered 2,450 standard slots inside the booking window here and 31.0% of them were still free to book.

First-timers do better than the headline suggests. Of 3,169 first attempts at Leeds (Colton Mill), 1,692 passed, a rate of 53.4%, which is 1.6 points above the all-attempts figure. 83 of those first tests were passed with no driving faults recorded at all, 2.62% of them. The gap says the candidates arriving well prepared are getting through, and the all-attempts rate is being pulled down by repeat attempts.

Male candidates passed at 53.9% and female candidates at 49.1%, a gap of 4.8 points across 3,611 and 2,821 tests. Automatic tests made up 35.1% of the workload and passed at 47.0%, 4.8 points below the manual-inclusive rate, worth knowing before paying the automatic lesson premium. Month to month the rate ran from 47.5% in July 2025 to 56.6% in February 2026, a 9.2-point swing that shows how little a single month proves.

None of the similarly sized centres in Yorkshire and The Humber runs more than five points ahead of Leeds (Colton Mill) 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.