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Curnow School

Mixed · ages 3–19 · with sixth formCornwall, South West · Redruth TR15 1LUTrust: Special Partnership TrustSchool website
Pupils on roll
115of 93 places
Free school meals
42.9%
Year 11 cohort 2025
11
Ofsted
Standards maintained, 13 November 2024Read the Ofsted report

Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Curnow School (URN 112086, until 1 September 2016).

What the data says

Of the 8 pupils who finished Year 11 at Curnow School in 2023, 0% stayed on in Curnow School’s own sixth form (Cornwall average 15%), none went to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.

Every pupil in the 2023 cohort went on to a sustained destination, against 92% across England.

Almost every leaver found a sustained destination: only 0% were not in education, work or training six months on, against 6% nationally.

Almost nobody goes straight into an apprenticeship or a job: none took an apprenticeship and none went into work, against 3% and 3% across England.

Where pupils went after Year 11

Destinations of the 2023 Year 11 leavers, measured the following year: the share in a sustained place for at least two terms. Compared with all state-funded schools in Cornwall and England.

Curnow School
Cornwall
England
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
MeasureCurnow SchoolCornwallEngland
Pupils in the cohort85,628607,348
Any sustained destination100%91%92%
Stayed in education100%81%86%
— school sixth form0%15%34%
— sixth form college0%11%13%
— further education college0%54%37%
— other education100%1%2%
Apprenticeship0%5%3%
Employment0%5%3%
No sustained destination0%7%6%
Destination unknown0%2%3%

Where students went after sixth form

Destinations of students who finished 16–18 study in 2023, measured the following year.

No published destinations for sixth-form leavers yet.

GCSE results 2025

No published Key Stage 4 results for this school.

Where Curnow School is

Other secondary schools in Cornwall are shown for comparison; darker blue means more Year 11 leavers stayed in education. The last distance at which this school offered places is not yet on file — it comes from Cornwall’s allocation statistics.

Other secondary schools in Cornwall

Bodmin College

Academy converter · sixth form · 1,236 pupils

84% stayed in education · Attainment 8 46.0

Brannel School

Academy sponsor led · 888 pupils

72% stayed in education · Attainment 8 41.6

Sources: Department for Education school and college performance tables 2024/2025 (Key Stage 4 and 16–18 results, subject entries, destination measures for 2023 leavers); Get Information About Schools register as at 19 September 2026; Ofsted management information as at 31 August 2026. Small numbers are suppressed by DfE and shown as “—”. How to read these figures.