Pupils from Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Newham, Redbridge and Thurrock attend the UTC.

[1] It was initially located within the CEME campus[2] and moved to London East Business and Technical Park in 2015.

[4] Elutec has three major sponsors: Ford Motor Company, the multi-national car manufacturer, University College London (UCL) and CEME, the research, skills and business campus.

Facilities include a manufacturing line, robotics centre and hydraulic/pneumatic training suite.

A 2019 Ofsted report found that the school "requires improvement".