Good, in the boring way that actually matters. Nearly four in five graded settings across the county come out good or better. A handful sit at outstanding. A small number do not, and the inspectorate names them rather than hiding them. There is no local school running on reputation alone, which is more than can be said for a lot of places with better postcards.
The published picture comes from Ofsted, and the counts cover the whole of Cornwall rather than St Blazey on its own, because that is the level the inspection data is aggregated at. Of 120 settings carrying a published overall effectiveness grade, 95 are good or better. Three are outstanding. Twenty sit at requires improvement and five at inadequate. A further 113 settings have no published grade at all, which usually means they have not been inspected under the current framework yet rather than anything about their quality, so they are not in the totals either way. What that county picture tells a buyer is that the odds of landing at a good school are strong, and the odds of landing at a struggling one are real but small.
The usual warning applies, and it is not a formality. Being near a school is not the same as getting into it. Cornwall allocates places by its own admissions rules, and an estate agent describing a house as being in a school's catchment is describing geography, not an offer letter. Check the actual allocation criteria for the specific school and the specific year before you let it move your budget, because the arithmetic that decides it happens in an office you will never visit.
Locally, primary provision is anchored by Biscovey Nursery and Infants' Academy and Biscovey Academy, which between them carry the town's own children through the early years and into juniors. Bishop Bronescombe Church of England School and Mount Charles School sit among the wider set of primaries serving the area, along with several others in the surrounding villages and the edges of St Austell. Secondary means travelling: Penrice Academy is the nearest of the mainstream options, with Poltair School also in range, and Cornwall College covering the post-sixteen end. Doubletrees School provides specialist education locally, which matters enormously to the families who need it and is worth knowing about before you assume the nearest specialist place is an hour away.
The practical shape of it is that primary is a walk or a short drive and secondary is a bus. That is standard for a Cornish town of this size, and the thing to test on a viewing is not the school gate but the morning run to it, because the road between here and St Austell does what roads between Cornish towns do at half past eight.
Schools are one of the stronger cards this area holds. The grades are solid, the specialist provision exists, and nothing about the local picture requires a buyer to plan an escape route by year seven.