Good, and unusually so for a village this size. Tregony has its own primary, which plenty of Cornish villages gave up decades ago. Maths results across the local primaries come in above the expected standard. Secondary means one school for the whole peninsula, so the choice gets made for you. The schools are the part of this place that needs no defending.
Tregony Community Primary School sits in the village itself, and the Department for Transport's modelled journey times put a primary within about eleven minutes on foot, which for rural Cornwall is close to a miracle of geography. Across the three mainstream state primaries in the area, the key stage 2 maths average score is 106, above the expected standard rather than merely scraping it. The surrounding parishes carry the rest of the load: Probus Primary School, Grampound-With-Creed Church of England Primary School and a handful of other small village primaries, each running on numbers a city headteacher would consider a single year group. Small schools mean the staff know every child's name and every parent's car. That cuts both ways, and most families here decide it cuts the right way.
Secondary is The Roseland Academy, the one mainstream state secondary serving this area, with an attainment 8 score of 48 across its pupils. Getting there is about ten minutes by car or fifteen by public transport on the modelled figures, and thirty-three minutes on foot for any teenager whose lift falls through on a wet February morning. One secondary means no agonising over open evenings and no league-table arithmetic at the kitchen table. It also means that if the school ever has a bad few years, there is no plan B within sensible distance.
The broader quality signal comes from Ofsted across Cornwall as a whole rather than this village. Of the 120 settings in the county carrying a published overall effectiveness grade, 95 are good or better, which is roughly four in five, and three of those hold outstanding. Twenty sit at requires improvement and five at inadequate. A further 113 settings have no published grade at all, either because they are awaiting inspection or because the grading regime has not reached them, and they should not be read as anything either way.
The usual warning applies and it applies harder here. Naming a school on a page like this is not the same as securing a place at it, and admissions run on published criteria and distance rather than on whichever village you happened to buy in. A house four fields from a particular primary can still be outside its priority area, and a village school with two form entries in total fills up quickly when a couple of families move in the same summer. Talk to the admissions team before you talk to the estate agent, not after.
Schooling is the strongest card Tregony holds. A village primary inside walking distance, primaries that clear the expected standard in maths, and one secondary that takes the decision out of your hands: that is a better hand than most places this small are dealt.