St Teath Community Primary School

Academy converter·Primary school Bodmin, Cornwall·PL30 3JX
Composite score
39.5
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#11,080
National rank
#1138
In South West
#151
In Cornwall
Top 75%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
50%
% achieving higher RWM
6%
Reading average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
106.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Early years provision
Requires improvement

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
12 first choices, 12 places
First choices per place
1.00
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
30
any preference, for 12 places
First preferences per place, last five years▶ 0.00
00.511.5
1 per place
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Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Every child who put St Teath 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
2–11
Pupils on roll
141
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
12.1%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
0.0%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
16.3%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
0.7%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
6.0%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
18.8%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
28.1
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£5,504
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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School overview

St Teath Community Primary School is a primary school serving Bodmin, Cornwall, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. It has 141 pupils aged 2 to 11 on roll. 50% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, below the national average (national figure: 61%). Performance is little changed 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 105 in reading and 106 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 6% 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 St Teath Community Primary School their first choice was offered one of its 12 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 6.0%. There are about 28.1 pupils per teacher. Its intake is relatively advantaged, with around 12% of pupils eligible for free school meals in the last six years versus about 24% nationally. St Teath 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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