St Levan Primary School
General Information
- Address: The Bottoms, St Levan, Penzance, TR19 6HD – View on map
- Phone: 01736810486
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mr Ben Chalwin
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 3 families put it first for 4 places – 8 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 10 · 2025 10 · 2026 8
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: None
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 5
- % eligible for free school meals: 13.5%
- Pupil mix: 2 in 10 (more mixed than the Cornwall average)
- English as an additional language: 8% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 22.2% 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: 7.9%
- Persistently absent pupils: 27.8%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 21.6%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 0.0%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Specific learning difficulty: 2 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 2 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 2 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
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: 88% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 13% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 28 percentage points above the Cornwall average (60%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 94%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 100% · Writing 88% · Maths 100% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 100%
- Average test scores: reading 112, maths 109
- Based on: 8 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: 7th of 209 junior and primary schools in the area
- =4Egloskerry Primary School91%
- #6Crowan Primary School90%
- #7St Levan Primary School88%
- =8Halwin School86%
- =8St Dominic CofE Primary School86%
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View full Ofsted inspection report
109th of 166 primary schools in Cornwall for Ofsted rating
- #107St Just Primary SchoolGood
- #108St Kew AcademyGood
- #109St Levan Primary SchoolGood
- #110St Mabyn CofE SchoolGood
- #111St Martin's CofE Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £12,017 (2024-25)
10th of 219 primary schools in Cornwall for spending per pupil
- #8Grampound-With-Creed CofE Primary School£12,253
- #9Launceston Primary School£12,211
- #10St Levan Primary School£12,017
- #11St Breward Community Primary School£11,952
- #12Breage CofE Primary School£11,584
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