St Nicolas' CofE VA School, Downderry
Academy sponsor led · Torpoint · PL11 3LF
Ages 3–11 · 109 pupils · Cornwall
Ofsted
Good
KS2 expected (RWM)
58%
Overall absence
5.8%
Admissions demand
1.00 · Balanced demand
Ofsted
Latest published inspection outcomes — not a ranking.
Headline
Good
Inspection date
2024-07-09
- Overall effectiveness
- Good
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Outstanding
- Personal development
- Outstanding
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Safeguarding effective
- Yes
Performance
Official school-level results. Figures are not rankings — suppressed values are omitted.
Key stage 2 (2023/24)
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 107.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 101.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 104.0
Absence
Academic year 2023/24. Persistent absence means 10%+ of sessions missed. Lower figures are better.
- Authorised absence
- 4.1%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 0.0%
- Enrolments in measure
- 91
Absence trend
2021/22
2022/23
2023/24
- Overall
- Persistent (10%+)
Admissions demand
Coordinated admissions for primary entry (2024/25 cycle, national offer day). Demand ratio compares families who listed this school 1st with total offers made — not a catchment or distance guarantee.
Demand ratio
1.00 · Balanced demand
1st preferences
15
Places offered
15
1st-preference offers
15
- Total preferences (any rank)
- 22
- Preferred offers (top 3)
- 15
- Applications from outside LA
- 0
- Offers to outside-LA applicants
- 0
Source: DfE primary and secondary school applications and offers. Figures reflect offers on national offer day; late applications, appeals and waiting lists are not included.
Size & intake
From the GIAS school census (15 Jan 2026).
109 pupils · 105 places
- Pupils on roll
- 109
- Boys / girls
- 39 / 70
- School capacity
- 105
- Capacity fill
- 109 / 105 (104%)
- Free school meals
- 8.3%
- FSM pupils
- 8
- Gender
- Mixed
- School type
- Academy sponsor led
Age range
Ages 3–11
Provision
Official GIAS characteristics
2 / 6
- NurseryHas Nursery Classes
- Sixth form
- Boarding
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
School characteristics
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Diocese
- Diocese of Truro
- Governance
- Academy trust: ST BARNABAS CHURCH OF ENGLAND MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
- Academy trust
- ST BARNABAS CHURCH OF ENGLAND MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
- Sponsor
- Askel Veur - Diocese of Truro
- Headteacher
- Mrs Christine Gardiner
Location
- Address
- Downderry
- Postcode
- PL11 3LF
- Town
- Torpoint
- County
- Cornwall
- Local authority
- Cornwall
- District
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall
- Urban/rural
- Larger rural: Further from a major town or city
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed academy sponsor led (primary), Ages 3–11, in Torpoint, Cornwall, 109 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: nursery, academy. Free school meals: 8.3%. Religious character: Church of England. Diocese: Diocese of Truro.
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Contact
- Headteacher
- Mrs Christine Gardiner
- Telephone
- 01503250565