Good, with one asterisk, and it sits exactly where the eleven-year-olds go. Roughly four in five graded settings across Cornwall come out good or better. Three of them are outstanding. In town there are four primaries to choose between, which counts as genuine choice for a place this size. The secondary picture is one school, and one school is not a choice, it is a destination.
Ofsted has graded 120 settings across Cornwall, the authority Saltash sits in, and 95 of them are good or better, which is about four in five. Three are outstanding, 20 require improvement and 5 are inadequate. A further 113 settings hold no published grade at all, either because they are new, converted, or simply not yet inspected, and none of that says anything about whether they are any good. These counts cover the whole of Cornwall rather than Saltash alone, so they describe the odds in the county, not a guarantee about the school at the end of your road.
Naming a school in an estate agent listing is not the same as having a place at it. Admissions are run by the local authority, oversubscribed schools turn children away every year, and the only version of a catchment that matters is the one published for the admissions round you are actually applying in. Check it before you exchange, not after, because the offer letter arrives long past the point where you can change your mind about the house.
The primaries are the strength. Burraton Community Primary School and St Stephens (Saltash) Community Primary School & Nursery carry the town's two oldest halves between them, Bishop Cornish is the Church of England option, and Brunel Primary and Nursery Academy is the result of the old infant and junior schools being folded into one. Beyond the town, the villages hold their own small primaries, including St Germans and Landulph, which is the sort of arrangement parents either love or spend four years driving to. Saltash Community School is the secondary, formerly branded around its science and computing specialism after 2004, and it was judged as requiring improvement at inspection in 2019 and again in 2022, the second time under a tougher framework than the first. That history is worth reading in full rather than in headline form, and worth checking against whatever the most recent inspection report says by the time you are house-hunting. Fountain Head House School occupies a former further education campus and serves a different need again.
Schooling is one of the better reasons to buy here rather than one of the risks, with a strong county-wide record and a primary market that gives parents something to actually choose between. The honest caveat is that the secondary decision is made for you by geography, so read that school's own inspection history properly before you commit to the postcode.