Shortlanesend School
General Information
- Address: Northey Close, Shortlanesend, Truro, TR4 9DA – View on map
- Phone: 01872276372
- Headteacher: Mr Matthew Richards
- Age range: 2-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 20 families put it first for 22 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 9 · 2025 8 · 2026 9
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 27
- % eligible for free school meals: 20.1%
- Pupil mix: 2 in 10 (similar to the Cornwall average)
- English as an additional language: 2% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 31.6% 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: 5.0%
- Persistently absent pupils: 10.9%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 19.3%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 3.6%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 10 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 7 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 6 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 2 pupils
- Multi-sensory impairment: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 4 pupils
- Physical disability: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2023 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 65% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 4% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 5 percentage points above the Cornwall average (60%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well below (3-year average 49% against an expected 64%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 49%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 78% · Writing 74% · Maths 70% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 78%
- Average test scores: reading 105, maths 102
- Based on: 23 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 83rd of 209 junior and primary schools in the area
- =83Looe Primary Academy65%
- =83Penryn Primary Academy65%
- =83Shortlanesend School65%
- =83St Dennis Primary Academy65%
- =89Altarnun Primary School64%
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91st of 166 primary schools in Cornwall for Ofsted rating
- #89Roche Community Primary SchoolGood
- #90Roskear Primary & Nursery SchoolGood
- #91Shortlanesend SchoolGood
- #92Sir Robert Geffery's Voluntary Aided Church of England Primary SchoolGood
- #93Sithney Community Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £7,221 (2024-25)
93rd of 219 primary schools in Cornwall for spending per pupil
- #91Nanstallon Community Primary School£7,234
- #92Constantine Primary School£7,228
- #93Shortlanesend School£7,221
- #94St Mary's Catholic School, Penzance£7,203
- #95Mullion Primary School£7,201
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