Good, and reassuringly dull about it. Eleven state primaries sit within reach, and the maths results across them land above the national average. The nearest secondary is a bus ride rather than a walk, which is the one thing families notice. Most of the local primaries are small village schools rather than big academies. For a rural pocket of Cornwall, this is a strong hand quietly played.
The primary picture is the strongest part. There are eleven mainstream state primaries in the area, and their average key stage two maths score comes out at roughly 104, which puts the local cohort above the national average rather than merely keeping pace with it. Indian Queens Primary School is the one carrying the place's name, with Roche Community Primary School, Summercourt Academy and St Columb Major Academy all sitting in the same practical radius. The Department for Transport's modelling puts a primary school about seven minutes away by car and thirteen on foot, on 2019 figures, so the school run here is a genuinely short one.
For inspection grades, the numbers available are county-wide rather than village-level. Ofsted has published an overall effectiveness grade for 120 settings across Cornwall, and 95 of those are good or better, which is around four in five. Three hold outstanding, 20 require improvement and five are inadequate. A further 113 settings carry no published grade at all, either because they are new or have not yet been inspected, and they should not be read as either good or bad news. What the county picture tells you is that the odds of landing a decent school in Cornwall are solidly in your favour, and this part of it is not the part dragging the average down.
Secondary is where the geography starts charging you. Brannel School is the realistic local option, with The Roseland Academy in the wider county but a long way round. Modelled journey times put a secondary school about eighteen minutes away by car, stretching to roughly 38 minutes on public transport. That gap is the single most useful number in this answer, because it decides whether your teenager becomes independent at eleven or whether you sign up for a decade of driving.
The usual warning applies and applies harder in a rural county. A school being near you is not a school admitting you. Cornwall Council allocates places on its own published criteria, and distance is only one of them, so a house two streets from a popular village primary is a preference, not a promise. Anyone buying specifically for a school should check that school's current admissions arrangements against the exact address before the offer goes in, because the arithmetic of a small intake changes faster than a property listing does.
The schools not named here are mostly more of the same: small village primaries serving a scattered population, with the kind of intake sizes where one cohort can move a result noticeably. That volatility cuts both ways, and it is worth reading two or three years of a small school's results rather than the most recent one.
Schools are among the best things this area has going for it. A short run to a well-performing primary, and a county record that holds up under inspection, is the sort of advantage buyers usually pay a premium postcode for.