Nanstallon Community Primary School
General Information
- Address: Nanstallon, Bodmin, PL30 5JZ – View on map
- Phone: 01208831418
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mr Ben Stephenson
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 27 families put it first for 17 places – 16 for every 10 places. 63% 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 15 · 2024 12 · 2025 10 · 2026 16
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 9
- % eligible for free school meals: 8.1%
- Pupil mix: 0 in 10 (less mixed than the Cornwall average)
- English as an additional language: 0% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 8.4% 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: 5.2%
- Persistently absent pupils: 7.8%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 12.6%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 1.8%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Specific learning difficulty: 7 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 2 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 2 pupils
- Other difficulty or disability: 2 pupils
- Physical disability: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 1 pupil
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Ofsted report card January 2026
Ofsted's new report cards grade each part of school life separately, instead of giving one overall word.
- Safeguarding Met
- Inclusion Needs attention
- Curriculum and teaching Needs attention
- Achievement Needs attention
- Attendance and behaviour Expected standard
- Personal development and wellbeing Needs attention
- Early years Expected standard
- Leadership and governance Needs attention
Before this, under the old system, Ofsted rated the school Good (2021). The report card above replaces that grade.
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 60% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 13% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: in line with the Cornwall average (60%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well below (3-year average 44% against an expected 61%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 44%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 60% · Writing 73% · Maths 87% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 53%
- Average test scores: reading 101, maths 104
- Based on: 15 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 111th of 209 junior and primary schools in the area
- =108Truro Learning Academy61%
- =111Archbishop Benson CofE Primary School60%
- =111Nanstallon Community Primary School60%
- =111St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Bodmin60%
- =111St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Falmouth60%
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £7,234 (2024-25)
91st of 219 primary schools in Cornwall for spending per pupil
- #89Camelford Community Primary School£7,256
- #90Mawgan-In-Pydar Primary School£7,236
- #91Nanstallon Community Primary School£7,234
- #92Constantine Primary School£7,228
- #93Shortlanesend School£7,221
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