Heamoor Community Primary School
General Information
- Address: Bosvenna Way, Heamoor, Penzance, TR18 3JZ – View on map
- Phone: 01736364868
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Jodie Flynn
- Age range: 5-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 31 families put it first for 30 places – 10 for every 10 places. 94% of them were offered a place. No places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 9 · 2024 10 · 2025 10 · 2026 10
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 57
- % eligible for free school meals: 28.4%
- Pupil mix: 1 in 10 (less mixed than the Cornwall average)
- English as an additional language: 2% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 17.4% a year (Cornwall 17%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 42% moved to another school, 58% 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: 6.2%
- Persistently absent pupils: 16.7%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 9.0%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 5.5%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 8 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 4 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 2 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Vision impairment: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 7 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 2 pupils
- Severe learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2021 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 47% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 7% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 13 percentage points below the Cornwall average (60%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: As expected (3-year average 57% against an expected 59%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 57%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 67% · Writing 53% · Maths 67% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 60%
- Average test scores: reading 102, maths 102
- Based on: 30 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 168th of 209 junior and primary schools in the area
- =168Bosvigo School47%
- =168Harrowbarrow Primary Academy47%
- =168Heamoor Community Primary School47%
- =168Pondhu Primary School47%
- =168St Erme with Trispen Community Primary School47%
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44th of 166 primary schools in Cornwall for Ofsted rating
- #42Gulval SchoolGood
- #43Gwinear Community Primary SchoolGood
- #44Heamoor Community Primary SchoolGood
- #45Illogan SchoolGood
- #46Kea Community Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,845 (2024-25)
116th of 219 primary schools in Cornwall for spending per pupil
- #114Mawnan CofE VA Primary School£6,921
- #115Roche Community Primary School£6,919
- #116Heamoor Community Primary School£6,845
- #117Stoke Climsland School£6,840
- #118Truro Learning Academy£6,823
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