St Erth Community Primary School
General Information
- Address: 32 School Lane, St Erth, Hayle, TR27 6HN – View on map
- Phone: 01736753153
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Joanne Bradbury
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 19 families put it first for 15 places – 13 for every 10 places. 74% 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 12 · 2024 10 · 2025 9 · 2026 13
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 23
- % eligible for free school meals: 21.9%
- Pupil mix: 1 in 10 (less mixed than the Cornwall average)
- English as an additional language: 1% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 17% a year (Cornwall 17%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 40% moved to another school, 60% 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: 5.3%
- Persistently absent pupils: 13.5%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 21.0%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 1.9%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Specific learning difficulty: 13 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 5 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 3 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
- Speech, language and communications needs: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2024 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 63% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 13% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 3 percentage points above the Cornwall average (60%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Above (3-year average 70% against an expected 64%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 70%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 81% · Writing 81% · Maths 88% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 69%
- Average test scores: reading 105, maths 107
- Based on: 16 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 91st of 209 junior and primary schools in the area
- =91Porthleven School63%
- =91St Catherine's CofE Primary School63%
- =91St Erth Community Primary School63%
- =91St Mary's Catholic School, Penzance63%
- =100Dobwalls Community Primary School62%
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104th of 166 primary schools in Cornwall for Ofsted rating
- #102St Dominic CofE Primary SchoolGood
- #103St Erme with Trispen Community Primary SchoolGood
- #104St Erth Community Primary SchoolGood
- #105St Hilary SchoolGood
- #106St Issey Church of England Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,752 (2024-25)
122nd of 219 primary schools in Cornwall for spending per pupil
- #120South Petherwin Community Primary School£6,768
- #121Bugle School£6,761
- #122St Erth Community Primary School£6,752
- #123Fowey Primary School£6,739
- #124Bosvigo School£6,726
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