Good, and unusually simple to work out. The village has its own primary. The secondary is one stop up the road in Penryn. Nearly four in five graded schools across the county are rated good or better. For a place this small, that is a shorter conversation than most parents are used to having.
Ofsted has graded 120 settings across Cornwall, and 95 of them hold a grade of good or outstanding. That is close to four in five. Three carry outstanding, 20 sit at requires improvement and five are rated inadequate. A further 113 settings in the county have no published grade at all, which means not yet inspected under the current arrangements rather than anything about their quality. Those are county-wide counts, not a measure of this village alone, so treat them as the weather rather than the forecast.
Mabe Community Primary School is the one that carries the place's name and the one most families here will use. Department for Transport modelling from 2019 puts the nearest primary at about nine minutes on foot and about eight by car, which in practice means the school run is a walk and the second car is a choice rather than a requirement. Penryn Primary Academy sits within easy reach for anyone on the Penryn side of the village or in Ponsanooth. For secondary, Penryn College is the local school, modelled at about nine minutes by car and around 17 by public transport.
Proximity is not admission. Cornwall Council allocates places, and living a short walk from a school gate is a strong position rather than a guarantee, particularly in a year when a nearby development or a bulge in the birth rate fills a cohort early. Check the current admission arrangements for the exact year of entry before assuming the nearest gate is your gate. The rules are published and they are honest, which is not the same as being the rules you were hoping for.
One local oddity worth naming, because it changes what people assume about education here. The built-up area contains the Penryn Campus, shared by Falmouth University and the University of Exeter, and 1,232 of the area's residents live in student halls against 1,702 in ordinary households. That skews the published age profile heavily towards the late teens and early twenties and tells you nothing whatsoever about the primary school's intake. Anyone reading the age numbers and concluding this is a place without young families has been misled by a campus.
Beyond the three named schools, the wider choice sits in Penryn and Falmouth, and the county-level grading picture is what applies to it. The brief carries no record of a school closing in the area recently, so the current lineup is the lineup.
Schooling is one of the stronger reasons to buy here. A walkable primary, a secondary a few minutes down the road, and a county record where the great majority of graded schools come out good or better is about as uncomplicated as this question gets in rural Cornwall.