Good, and none of that is the village's doing. The schools serving Gorran Haven sit across the wider Cornwall register, where roughly four in five graded settings come out good or better. A few are outstanding. A few are the opposite. The quality is genuinely there. The distance between your front door and it is the part worth studying.
Ofsted has published overall grades for 120 settings across Cornwall, the authority responsible for schooling here, and 95 of them are good or better, which is just under four in five. Three hold an outstanding grade. Twenty require improvement and five are inadequate. A further 113 settings carry no published grade at all, either because they have not been inspected under the current framework or because they are too new, and counting those as either good or bad would be inventing an answer. All of this describes the county rather than the lane at the end of the village, which is the honest limit of what a county-level figure can tell a buyer.
That limit matters more here than it would in a town. A strong county average is not an offer letter. Admission runs on the authority's published arrangements and on how many other families had the same thought in the same year, and in a place with this few children a single year group can change the answer entirely. Read the admission arrangements for the year you are actually applying, not the reputation attached to a building someone showed you on a viewing.
Gorran School carries the local name and is the obvious first look. Mevagissey Community Primary School serves the harbour village two miles north that this page also covers. Sky Primary and Eden Project Nursery is the outlier in the list, and whatever it does in practice, the name reads less like a school and more like something you would be sold on a retreat weekend. For secondary, the register points at Brannel School. The Department for Transport's 2019 modelling puts a secondary school at 22 minutes by car and close to two hours on public transport, and that second figure is what actually shapes the teenage years here, not the inspection grade. Beyond those, the primary options fan out through the inland parishes, all of them a drive rather than a walk, which is a school run in every sense.
Schools are one of the real strengths of living around Gorran Haven, and the grades earn that rather than flatter it. The problem was never the teaching. It is the mileage.