St Michael's Church of England Primary School

About St Michael's Church of England Primary School

St Michael's Church of England Primary School in Cornwall has been rated Good by Ofsted following its most recent graded inspection, a significant improvement from its previous Requires Improvement rating. The school's leadership and management, as well as its early years provision, are both now judged Good. When it comes to academic outcomes at Key Stage 2, the school's headline metric is the percentage of pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined, which stands at 62%. That figure sits above the Cornwall local authority average of 58%, placing St Michael's in the top half of primary schools nationally, at the 53rd percentile. The school's average reading and maths scores are 105 and 104 respectively, both comfortably above the national benchmark of 100. A further 7% of pupils achieved the higher standard across all three subjects.

Looking more closely at individual subjects, 79% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, 75% in writing and 70% in maths. Higher-attaining pupils are most visible in reading, where 28% secured the higher standard, compared with 23% in maths and just 7% in writing. The school's Progress 8 scores are not available, so it is not possible to say how much value the school adds relative to pupils' starting points. However, the school ranks 89th out of 208 primary schools in Cornwall on the combined expected standard measure, placing it in the bottom half of the local authority. In the South West region, it sits at 687th out of 1,469 schools. The school's most recent ungraded inspection, carried out in February 2025, confirmed that standards are being maintained.

St Michael's is a Church of England primary for mixed genders aged 4 to 11, with 323 pupils on roll against a capacity of 420. It is oversubscribed: for the 2025/26 academic year, there were 99 applications for 47 places, with 47 first-preference offers made. The school has a higher-than-average proportion of pupils eligible for free school meals at 30%. Facilities include a library, music rooms, ICT suite, sports hall, sensory room, playing fields, forest school and a chapel. Sports on offer include tennis, cricket, football, gymnastics and netball, while clubs range from gardening and chess to science club and choir. The school lists SEND provisions for dyslexia, moderate learning difficulty, social emotional and mental health needs, speech language and communication needs, physical disability and autistic spectrum disorder. Parent views are overwhelmingly positive: 91% would recommend the school, and 100% of parents who responded agreed or strongly agreed that their child is happy there.

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