Good, and unusually self-contained for a town this size. There is an infant school, a junior school and a secondary, all of them carrying the town's name and all of them within the same few streets. Nobody here does the school run across a county. The wider area's inspection record is solid rather than showy. For a place where getting anywhere else involves a ferry, having the whole education ladder on your own side of the water is worth more than any league table position.
Ofsted's published grades across Cornwall, which is the authority Torpoint sits in, show 95 settings rated good or better out of 120 with a published overall grade. That is around four in five. Three are rated outstanding, 20 require improvement and five are inadequate. A further 113 settings hold no published overall grade at all, either because they have not been inspected under the current framework or because they fall outside it, and those are simply unrated rather than a hidden pile of failures. These counts cover the whole county, not just the Rame Peninsula, so they describe the water Torpoint swims in rather than the specific schools your children would attend.
Which brings us to the part estate agents leave out of the window card. Naming a school near a house is not the same as securing a place in it. Cornwall Council allocates on its own published criteria, oversubscription happens, and a property being two streets from the gate is not a guarantee of anything. Check the current admissions arrangements for the specific school and the specific year of entry before you let proximity influence an offer, because the allocation letter arrives in spring and it does not care what the listing said.
The core of the town's provision is Torpoint Nursery and Infant School feeding Carbeile Junior School, with Torpoint Community College taking secondary-age pupils. That college is the notable one: it is the only secondary in the immediate area, which means it serves not just the town but the villages spread across the peninsula behind it. Families in Antony, Millbrook, Kingsand, Cawsand, Crafthole and Freathy are all looking at the same secondary. Antony Church of England School and Fourlanesend Community Primary School cover the smaller settlements, with further primary provision at Millbrook and out along the coast, so the primary layer is a scattering of village schools rather than one large one.
There is a real consequence buried in that structure. A single secondary means no anxious comparison of two catchments, no premium attached to the right side of an invisible line, and no version of the house hunt where the school choice quietly drives the postcode choice. Buyers arriving from cities tend to find this either restful or alarming, depending on how much of their identity is invested in having options. The trade-off is honest: you get simplicity, you give up choice, and if the fit is wrong the alternative is across the Tamar and the timetable becomes your problem.
Schools are among the strongest things Torpoint has going for it, and the reason is structural rather than statistical: a full set of schools, walkable, in a town where the water makes commuting anywhere else a genuine faff.