Good, and almost entirely somewhere else. The village itself has no school of its own, so every morning here begins with a car key rather than a coat. The primaries within reach turn in solid results. There is one state secondary serving the area, and it holds up. Cornwall's inspection record is strong enough that the odds are with you wherever you land.
Three mainstream state primaries serve the area, and between them they return an average scaled maths score of about 104 at the end of primary, which sits comfortably on the right side of the expected standard. Devoran School and Kea Community Primary School are the closest, with Threemilestone School and a handful of other village primaries filling out the ring. Department for Transport modelling puts the nearest primary at 11 minutes by car, 22 by public transport, and 42 on foot, which is a school run rather than a walk to the gates. Nobody in Feock is dropping a child off in slippers.
Secondary is simpler because there is one of it. Richard Lander School is the single mainstream state secondary in the area, with a pupil-weighted Attainment 8 score of 51 across the cohort. Getting there runs to 19 minutes by car or 41 by public transport, and the walk comes in at 106 minutes, a number included here mainly so nobody tries it. For a rural parish with this few residents, one solid secondary within a twenty-minute drive is not a bad hand.
The wider inspection picture is the reassuring part. Ofsted has published an overall effectiveness grade for 120 settings across Cornwall, of which 95 are good or better, roughly four in five. Three carry an outstanding grade, 20 require improvement and five are inadequate. A further 113 settings hold no published grade yet, which is a gap in the register rather than a verdict on them. As a local authority, Cornwall is a long way from the sort of place where parents start researching private options on the drive home from the second viewing.
The usual warning applies, and applies harder here. Naming a school is not the same as securing a place at it. Cornwall allocates on its own admissions rules, distance among them, and living in a parish that sends children to a particular primary today guarantees nothing about the offer that lands in the spring. Buyers who assume the nearest good school is theirs by postal address tend to find out otherwise at the least convenient moment. Ring the admissions team before you ring the estate agent back.
Schools are one of the strongest things Feock has going for it, and the only real cost is the mileage.
