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Featherstone driving test centre

West Midlands, England

Featherstone at a glance

Pass rate
36.4%
April 2025 to March 2026
Average wait
9.1 weeks
June 2026
Tests a year
13,193
April 2025 to March 2026
Slots still free
4.6%
Of the 24-week booking window

How Featherstone compares

Featherstone passes 36.4% of car tests, which is 13.7 points below the 50.1% national average. The typical wait between booking and testing is 9.1 weeks, 3 weeks shorter than the national average of 12.1 weeks. It conducted 13,193 car tests in April 2025 to March 2026. In the most recent month DVSA has published, March 2026, the rate was 36% — a single month, so expect it to bounce around the annual figure.

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Trends at Featherstone

Pass rate

Mar 2026: 36.0%

32%41%50%GB averageApr 24Aug 24Dec 24Apr 25Aug 25Dec 25Mar 26
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Monthly car practical pass rate at Featherstone driving test centre, most recent 12 published months.
Month Pass rate
36%
34%
33.9%
37.7%
38%
39.3%
36.2%
39.3%
37.3%
33.6%
32.9%
39.1%

Waiting time

Jun 2026: 9.1w

6w11w17wGB averageJul 24Nov 24Mar 25Jul 25Nov 25Mar 26Jun 26
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Average wait in weeks between booking and taking a car test at Featherstone, most recent 12 published months.
Month Average wait
9.1 weeks
6.9 weeks
6.3 weeks
17.2 weeks
8 weeks
7.4 weeks
7.3 weeks
6.4 weeks
11 weeks
14.6 weeks
9.9 weeks
9 weeks

Tests conducted each month

Mar 2026: 1124

89611251354Apr 24Aug 24Dec 24Apr 25Aug 25Dec 25Mar 26
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Car practical tests conducted each month at Featherstone, most recent 12 published months.
Month Tests conducted
1,124
1,043
1,098
981
1,267
1,245
1,153
1,011
1,119
1,168
1,066
918

Year by year

Car practical tests, passes and pass rate at Featherstone driving test centre by DVSA financial year (April to March).
Year Tests Passes Pass rate
2025-26 13,193 4,807 36.4%
2024-25 14,070 4,798 34.1%
2023-24 13,534 4,549 33.6%
2022-23 8,397 3,235 38.5%
2021-22 7,699 2,913 37.8%
2020-21 2,224 933 42%
2019-20 7,415 2,818 38%
2018-19 7,552 2,890 38.3%
2017-18 6,565 2,642 40.2%
2016-17 5,367 2,450 45.6%

Where it is

Nearby test centres

There is no catchment area for the practical test — you can book at any of these instead.

Everything on this page describes Featherstone driving test centre. Figures come from the DVSA statistical data sets DRT122A and DRT122F, published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Pass rates run to March 2026 and waiting times to June 2026. This page was last updated .

Practice makes perfect

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