Berrycoombe School
General Information
- Address: Berrycoombe Vale, Bodmin, PL31 2PH – View on map
- Phone: 0120874969
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mr Craig Robertson
- Age range: 2-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 14 families put it first for 15 places – 9 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. No places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 10 · 2024 10 · 2025 10 · 2026 9
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 82
- % eligible for free school meals: 41.6%
- Pupil mix: 3 in 10 (more mixed than the Cornwall average)
- English as an additional language: 10% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 19% a year (Cornwall 17%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 36% moved to another school, 64% left state schools altogether (retirement, other careers, independent schools, abroad)
- Data years: 2022/23 to 2024/25 (average of 3 years, DfE school workforce census)
Teachers who moved school or left state schools in the year after each November, as a share of all the school's teachers. Some turnover is healthy – retirements, promotions, moving house. This is a small staff, so one or two teachers leaving moves the figure a lot.
Behaviour
Awaiting Data
Across Cornwall: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 8 (0.2 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 9 (0.2 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 1 (0.0 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.0)
- Data year: 2024/25 (DfE suspensions and exclusions statistics)
These are figures for all state primary schools in Cornwall, not this school's own – the government doesn't publish them school by school. A suspension can have up to three reasons. Most sexual harassment between pupils never leads to a suspension, so these figures show only part of the picture.
Attendance
- Overall absence: 6.5%
- Persistently absent pupils: 17.1%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 15.7%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 6.6%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Social, emotional and mental health: 12 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 9 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 3 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 3 pupils
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 2 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Social, emotional and mental health: 6 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 5 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Physical disability: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2022 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 55% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 0% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 5 percentage points below the Cornwall average (60%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: As expected (3-year average 54% against an expected 56%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 54%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 62% · Writing 72% · Maths 62% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 59%
- Average test scores: reading 103, maths 101
- Based on: 29 Year 6 pupils, 2024/25
View the School Context Comparator – how this school's SATs results compare with schools teaching similar pupils.
SATs results over time
Year 6 SATs: joint 143rd of 209 junior and primary schools in the area
- =139Gwinear Community Primary School56%
- =139Pennoweth Primary School56%
- =143Berrycoombe School55%
- =143Roche Community Primary School55%
- =143Threemilestone School55%
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7th of 166 primary schools in Cornwall for Ofsted rating
- #5Archbishop Benson CofE Primary SchoolGood
- #6Beacon AcademyGood
- #7Berrycoombe SchoolGood
- #8Bishop Bronescombe CofE SchoolGood
- #9Bishop Cornish CofE VA Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £7,724 (2024-25)
71st of 219 primary schools in Cornwall for spending per pupil
- #69Landulph School£7,829
- #70St Mark's CofE Academy£7,731
- #71Berrycoombe School£7,724
- #72Jacobstow Community Academy£7,684
- #73Boskenwyn Community Primary School£7,623
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