Middlesbrough driving test centre: practice routes and pass rate
Maxwell Road, Cleveland, North Yorkshire, TS3 8TE
Middlesbrough had a car driving test pass rate of 47.7% from April 2025 to March 2026 (8,854 tests), 2.4 points below the average across UK test centres (50.1%). Drive Round App has 3 practice routes around the centre; a typical route is about 8 km and takes around 19 minutes, mostly on town and residential roads (66%) and A roads (14%).
What the practice routes cover
- Town and residential roads66%
- A roads14%
- B roads12%
- Country lanes9%
On a typical route you'll go through 2 roundabouts and 9 sets of traffic lights.
Roads the routes use most
- A172 Marton Road2 of 3 routes
- B1272 Linthorpe Road2 of 3 routes
- Gresham Road2 of 3 routes
- Linthorpe Road2 of 3 routes
Pass rate
From April 2025 to March 2026, 8,854 car tests were taken at Middlesbrough and 4,221 passed: a pass rate of 47.7%.
Source: DVSA, “Practical car pass rates by gender, month and DTC” (DRT122A). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Practise these routes
Open the 3 Middlesbrough routes in the app with turn-by-turn navigation, then record your drive and get an AI report on how it went.
These are practice routes built by Drive Round App around the test centre, not official test routes: DVSA doesn't publish its routes, and examiners can use any road in the area. Practise a mix of roads and junctions, not one route. Routes last updated 11 October 2026.