Kea Community Primary School

Community school·Primary school Truro, Cornwall·TR3 6AY
Composite score
40.6
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#10,747
National rank
#1096
In South West
#146
In Cornwall
Top 73%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
57%
% achieving higher RWM
3%
Reading average scaled score
107.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
102.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
20 first choices, 23 places
First choices per place
0.87
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
56
any preference, for 23 places
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.02
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9220221.0020230.9320240.8920250.872026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Every child who put Kea Community Primary School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
4–11
Pupils on roll
204
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
8.8%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
4.9%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
16.2%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
2.0%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
6.3%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
13.3%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
21.9
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,667
Typical primary: £6,960

“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means

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Location

Kea Community Primary School at a glance

Located in Truro, Cornwall, Kea Community Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 204 pupils aged 4 to 11. 57% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, broadly in line with the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has risen by 14.0 percentage points year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 107 in reading and 102 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 3% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Kea Community Primary School their first choice was offered one of its 23 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 6.3%. There are about 21.9 pupils per teacher. Its intake is relatively advantaged, with around 9% of pupils eligible for free school meals in the last six years versus about 24% nationally. Kea Community Primary School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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