Good, right up until your child turns eleven. Two state primaries serve the area and both are close enough to walk to. End-of-primary maths sits above the national standard. Secondary education happens somewhere else entirely. So the schools are a genuine strength here, with an asterisk that arrives on a bus.
The primary provision is St Agnes Academy and Mithian School, the two mainstream state primaries around here. Between them they post an average scaled score of 104 in the end-of-primary maths tests, which is above the national expected standard and unremarkable only in the sense that nobody moves to a village like this for the league tables. Department for Transport modelling puts the typical primary journey at 19 minutes on foot or about eight by car, which in practice means the school run is a walk unless it is raining sideways off the Atlantic, which it periodically is.
Ofsted has published a grade for 120 settings across Cornwall as a whole, and 95 of them are good or outstanding, roughly four in five. Three carry outstanding, 20 sit at requires improvement, and five are graded inadequate. A further 113 settings have no published grade at all, which means not yet inspected rather than anything sinister, and folding them into the numbers would be the sort of thing an estate agent does on purpose. These figures cover the whole county rather than this parish, so they describe the pool St Agnes swims in, not the water immediately outside the front door.
Naming a school on a page like this is not the same as securing a place in it. Admissions for Cornwall's schools are run by the local authority, applied for in the usual round, and a postcode that looks close on a map has never once been an offer letter. Anyone buying specifically for a particular primary should confirm the current arrangements with the admissions team before the survey, not after the exchange.
Secondary is where the geography starts charging rent. There is no secondary school in the village, and the modelled journey to the nearest one runs to about 22 minutes by car, 52 minutes on public transport, or a shade under two hours on foot, which is listed as an option in the same spirit that swimming is listed as a way to reach the Isles of Scilly. Families here get five or six years of a two-minute walk to the school gate followed by seven years of logistics. That trade is knowable in advance, and the people who struggle with it are usually the ones who did the sums on the primary and stopped there.
For a parish this size, the schooling is one of St Agnes' real strengths: close primaries, results on the right side of the national line, and a county-wide inspection record most places would take. The only thing it asks of you is a plan for the teenage years, and that plan involves a vehicle.