Good, and none of them are in Sticker. The village posts its children out to the surrounding parishes every morning and gets them back at teatime. Across Cornwall, close to four in five graded settings come out good or better. One state secondary covers this stretch. The schools are a strength here, and the school run is the price of admission.
Ofsted has published grades for 120 settings across Cornwall, and 95 of them are good or better. Three hold an outstanding grade, 20 require improvement and five are rated inadequate. Those counts cover the whole local authority rather than the short list a Sticker family would actually use, so they describe the odds rather than the outcome for any one classroom. A further 113 settings hold no published grade at all, which means not yet inspected under current arrangements rather than quietly failing, and folding them into the total would be dishonest arithmetic.
Living near a school and getting into it are separate achievements. Cornwall allocates places under its own admission arrangements, with distance one factor among several rather than a promise, so a house bought for a particular gate can still deliver an offer letter naming somewhere else. Anyone buying on the strength of a school should read the admission arrangements for the actual year of entry before the offer goes in on the house, not after.
St Mewan Community Primary School carries the name of the parish Sticker sits in and is the obvious first look. St Stephen Churchtown Academy covers the other direction. Sky Primary and Eden Project Nursery wins the naming competition in this part of Cornwall without much of a contest. For secondary, the answer is short: Brannel School serves this stretch of the clay country, and there is no realistic second option nearby. Beyond those, the surrounding villages hold a further set of primaries and academies, none of them within walking distance of Sticker. The Department for Transport's modelled journey times put the nearest primary at about nine minutes by car or about 26 minutes on foot, and the nearest secondary at about 14 minutes by car or about 59 minutes walking, which settles the question of whether the teenagers are walking to school.
Judged on the schools themselves, this is one of the better corners of the county to be bringing up children, with a grade profile that holds up and a secondary that does not require a daily expedition. The compromise is geography rather than quality. Every good school here begins with a car key.