Flushing School
General Information
- Address: Coventry Road, Flushing, Falmouth, TR11 5TX – View on map
- Phone: 01326374498
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Carolyn Power
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 5 families put it first for 6 places – 8 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 12 · 2024 10 · 2025 10 · 2026 8
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Church of England
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 13
- % eligible for free school meals: 22.4%
- Pupil mix: 3 in 10 (more mixed than the Cornwall average)
- English as an additional language: 3% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 15.1% a year (Cornwall 17%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 0% moved to another school, 100% 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: 6.0%
- Persistently absent pupils: 11.1%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 19.0%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 1.7%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 5 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 2 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 2 pupils
- Vision impairment: 1 pupil
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Physical disability: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2019 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 75% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 17% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 15 percentage points above the Cornwall average (60%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: As expected (3-year average 68% against an expected 67%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 68%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 100% · Writing 83% · Maths 92% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 83%
- Average test scores: reading 109, maths 107
- Based on: 12 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 33rd of 209 junior and primary schools in the area
- =33Blackwater Community Primary School75%
- =33Camelford Community Primary School75%
- =33Flushing School75%
- =33Gulval School75%
- =33Upton Cross Academy75%
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35th of 166 primary schools in Cornwall for Ofsted rating
- #33Egloskerry Primary SchoolGood
- #34Falmouth Primary AcademyGood
- #35Flushing SchoolGood
- #36Foxhole Learning AcademyGood
- #37Germoe Community Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £9,127 (2024-25)
32nd of 219 primary schools in Cornwall for spending per pupil
- #30St Buryan Primary School£9,172
- #31Foxhole Learning Academy£9,171
- #32Flushing School£9,127
- #33Trythall Community Primary School£9,105
- #34Trewidland Primary School£9,086
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