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Secondary school in Torpoint, Cornwall

Torpoint Community College

Trevol Road, Torpoint, Cornwall, PL11 2NH

Ofsted Good · 2022 Sixth form
School website 01752812511

Ofsted

Goodas at 7 July 2022

Remained Good at its last ungraded inspection, on 7 July 2022.

Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 4 years old and will not be updated — the school keeps it until its next inspection, which will not produce a replacement grade.

Read the Ofsted report

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

41 England 47

The average grade across eight GCSEs, doubling English and maths. 50 is roughly a grade 5 average.

Grade 5+ in English & maths

38% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

56% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

3.8 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

47% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the bottom quarter of state-funded secondaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is middle, which is where this one sits, it is in the bottom quarter.

Progress 8 2023/24

-0.47confidence interval -0.71 to -0.23

Taking that range into account, pupils made less progress than similar pupils nationally. DfE bands this as below average.

Progress 8 measures how far pupils moved between the end of primary and their GCSEs, which makes it far fairer than raw attainment. It is shown for 2023/24 because it could not be calculated for 2024/25: that year group would have sat their key stage 2 tests in summer 2020, when the tests were cancelled, so there is no starting point to measure from. Every school in England is affected, not just this one.

A levels 2024/25

Average grade per entry
D+
Average points per entry
21.9

England average 32.3

A level students
26

Pupils

Pupils on roll
668
Places
1141
How full
59% full — 668 of 1141 places taken, so places are likely to be available
Girls / boys
320 / 348
Overall absence
11%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
28%

secondary schools average 23.9% — pupils missing 10% or more of sessions

Free school meals, last 6 years
25%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
3%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
3%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
11%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
94%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
79%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
10%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
27%
No sustained destination
6%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
126

After sixth form

Went to university
22%

England 50%

In education, work or training
83%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
17%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
23

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

11% England 20.9%

The third of higher education providers whose entrants hold the highest average entry qualifications. It is the closest thing in the public data to "did they get into a competitive university", and it separates schools far more sharply than the headline progression rate does.

Went on to a degree
52%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
27

These follow an earlier group of leavers than the figures above, and count anyone reaching higher education within two years rather than the term after leaving, so they are not directly comparable with them.

A destination counts only if it lasted at least six months, which is why these figures lag the exam results by a year, and why the university figures track leavers from 2021/22. Small cohorts move these percentages a long way — check the cohort size before reading much into a gap.

The neighbourhood around the school

Census 2021 figures for Cornwall 029B, the statistical neighbourhood the school sits in — roughly 1,500 residents. It describes the area, not the pupils, who may travel in from further away.

Adults with a degree
27%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
17%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
77%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
8%

England 17%

Households with no car
21%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
47%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Foundation school
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
Torpoint and Rame Co-operative Trust
Headteacher
Acting Headteacher: Jeremy Plumb
Local authority
Cornwall
Ward
Torpoint
Constituency
South East Cornwall
URN
112041

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
UTC PlymouthUniversity technical college Good 2023 36.4 1.3 mi
Oneschool Global Uk Plymouth CampusOther independent school No grade 1.8 mi
Saltash Community SchoolAcademy converter No grade 42.9 1.9 mi
Devonport High School for BoysAcademy converter Good 2023 69.3 2 mi
Scott Medical and Healthcare CollegeStudio schools No grade 43.5 2.1 mi
Stoke Damerel Community CollegeAcademy converter No grade 35.9 2.1 mi
Millbay AcademyFree schools Good 2024 36.9 2.4 mi
Marine Academy PlymouthAcademy sponsor led Good 2024 43.6 2.5 mi

Schools with a similar intake

State-funded secondary schools nationally whose share of disadvantaged pupils is closest to this school's. This is the fairest like-for-like comparison the published data supports.

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8
St Bernadette Catholic Secondary SchoolVoluntary aided school No grade 44.5
The Cheadle AcademyAcademy converter No grade 40
Southmoor AcademyAcademy converter Good 2022 49
Saint Benedict, A Catholic Voluntary AcademyAcademy converter Good 2023 45.3
The Fulham Boys SchoolFree schools Good 2022 61.4
Alde Valley AcademyAcademy sponsor led Requires improvement 2024 33.7
Ridgewood High SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 46
Mercia SchoolFree schools Outstanding 2023 68.1

Where these figures come from

  • School details, address and pupil numbers — Get Information About Schools, the DfE register, as at 14 August 2026.
  • Exam results — DfE performance tables, 2024/25, and 2023/24 for Progress 8.
  • Free school meals, EAL and SEN — school census, 2024/25.
  • Ofsted — Ofsted management information, latest inspections as at 30 June 2026.
  • Neighbourhood figures — ONS Census 2021, lower layer super output area.

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