Roskear Primary & Nursery School
General Information
- Address: Roskear, Camborne, TR14 8DJ – View on map
- Phone: 01209714241
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Miss Nicola Furnish
- Age range: 2-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 40 families put it first for 45 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 8 · 2024 9 · 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: 130
- % eligible for free school meals: 36.2%
- Pupil mix: 3 in 10 (more mixed than the Cornwall average)
- English as an additional language: 16% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 11% a year (Cornwall 17%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 55% moved to another school, 45% 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.
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: 16.8%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
- Resourced provision for Hearing impairment
Places are usually for children with an EHC Plan and are arranged through the council, not the normal school application.
- Pupils on SEN Support: 19.3%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 3.2%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 25 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 22 pupils
- Other difficulty or disability: 21 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 4 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 3 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 5 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 4 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 4 pupils
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2011 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 58% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 11% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: in line with the Cornwall average (60%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: As expected (3-year average 59% against an expected 58%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 59%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 67% · Writing 75% · Maths 71% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 64%
- Average test scores: reading 104, maths 103
- Based on: 55 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 126th of 209 junior and primary schools in the area
- =126Devoran School58%
- =126Fowey Primary School58%
- =126Roskear Primary & Nursery School58%
- =126St Stephen Churchtown Academy58%
- =131Carbeile Junior School57%
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90th of 166 primary schools in Cornwall for Ofsted rating
- #88Quethiock CofE SchoolGood
- #89Roche Community Primary SchoolGood
- #90Roskear Primary & Nursery SchoolGood
- #91Shortlanesend SchoolGood
- #92Sir Robert Geffery's Voluntary Aided Church of England Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,483 (2024-25)
136th of 219 primary schools in Cornwall for spending per pupil
- #134St Michael's Church of England Primary School£6,542
- #135Dobwalls Community Primary School£6,513
- #136Roskear Primary & Nursery School£6,483
- #137Mabe Community Primary School£6,479
- #138Beacon Academy£6,478
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