Good, and not one of them is in Trevone. The village has no school of its own and never gives the impression it wants one. The nearest primary is a walk of about ten minutes. The nearest secondary is a drive of nearly half an hour. Trevone subcontracts childhood to the villages around it, and on the whole gets a decent deal.
The county picture is genuinely strong. Ofsted has graded 120 settings across Cornwall, and 95 of them are good or better, which is around four in five. Three are rated outstanding. Twenty require improvement and five are rated inadequate, so the spread is real rather than uniform, but the weight of it sits firmly on the good side. A further 113 settings hold no published grade yet, which means exactly that and nothing more. Those figures cover the whole local authority, which is a large and varied county, not the two or three schools a Trevone family will actually consider.
That last point matters more here than in most places. A good county average is not a place at a good school. Admission is decided by the school's own oversubscription rules and by where you live on the day of application, not by which page you read before you offered on the house. Nothing about buying in Trevone secures you a seat anywhere, and the coastal villages around Padstow are small enough that a single busy year can change who gets in and who ends up driving further. If a particular school is the reason you are moving, ring the admissions team and ask about the last two years before you ring the estate agent.
For primary, the realistic options are Padstow School and St Merryn School, both a short hop from the village. The Department for Transport's modelling puts a primary at roughly 11 minutes on foot from here, about 7 minutes by car, and around 8 by public transport, which is one of the very few journeys in this area where the bus is competitive with the car. That is the practical shape of primary years in Trevone. Short trips, familiar faces, and a school run that does not eat the morning.
Secondary is the part worth thinking through properly. The same modelling puts the nearest secondary at about 26 minutes by car and roughly 44 minutes by public transport. The walk time hits the model's two-hour ceiling, which is the polite way of saying it is not a walk. For eleven years of school, that means roughly seven of them are a stroll and four of them are a logistics operation involving a car, a timetable, or a teenager who learns to like early buses. Families who move here for the beach and work out the secondary run afterwards tend to be the ones renegotiating with themselves by the second winter.
Schools are one of the strongest cards this area holds, with a county record that is good almost everywhere it has been graded and a primary practically on the doorstep. The catch is not quality. It is mileage, and it arrives the year your child turns eleven.