Carclaze Community Primary School
St Piran's Close, St Austell, PL25 3TF
- Phase
- Primary
- School type
- Academy converter
- Ages
- 4 to 11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Trust
- CORNWALL EDUCATION LEARNING TRUST
- Headteacher
- Mrs Emma Williams
- Sponsor
- Cornwall Education Learning Trust
- Constituency
- St Austell and Newquay
- Setting
- Urban: Further from a major town or city
- Capacity
- 420
- Pupils on roll
- 377
- URN
- 141710
- Local authority
- Cornwall
- Website
- School website
- Telephone
- 0172674194
About this school
Carclaze Community Primary School is a primary academy in St Austell. It teaches children aged 4 to 11 and has 377 pupils on roll.
You can read Ofsted's latest judgement for the school below. Where the Department for Education has published them, its results and pupil characteristics appear below. Seeing a school for yourself shows what no page can, so arrange a visit before you apply.
Ofsted judgement
Ofsted no longer gives schools a single overall grade. Each area of the school's work is graded on a five-point scale, and safeguarding is judged separately.
- Inclusion
- Expected standard
- Curriculum and teaching
- Expected standard
- Achievement
- Expected standard
- Attendance and behaviour
- Expected standard
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Expected standard
- Leadership and governance
- Expected standard
- Early years
- Needs attention
- Safeguarding
- Met
Exam results
Key stage 2 (end of primary school)
| Measure | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of key stage 2 | 63 | 60 | 59 |
| Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths | 70% | 62% | 63% |
| Reached the higher standard in reading, writing and maths | 8% | 7% | 2% |
| Expected standard in reading | 84% | 75% | 69% |
| Expected standard in maths | 89% | 78% | 85% |
| Expected standard in grammar, punctuation and spelling | 81% | 78% | 71% |
| Average scaled score in reading | 108.0 | 105.0 | 105.0 |
| Average scaled score in maths | 108.0 | 106.0 | 106.0 |
| Reading progress | +2.40 | - | - |
| Writing progress | -0.10 | - | - |
| Maths progress | +3.30 | - | - |
Progress measures ended nationally after the 2022/23 school year, when the key stage 1 assessments they were based on were stopped. Blank progress figures in later years are not missing school data.
Trends over time
How Carclaze Community Primary School has moved over recent years against the local and national picture. Every figure is shown in the table beneath its chart.
| Year | This school | Cornwall average | England average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 70% | 56.6% | 57.9% |
| 2023/24 | 62% | 56.8% | 58.8% |
| 2024/25 | 63% | 59.4% | 60.3% |
Department for Education KS2 performance data, published school results.
| Year | This school | England average |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 4.5% | 6.8% |
| 2023/24 | 5.1% | 6.6% |
| 2024/25 | 4.2% | 6.2% |
Department for Education pupil absence data.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 384 |
| 2023/24 | 385 |
| 2024/25 | 386 |
School census, spring count each academic year.
How Carclaze Community Primary School compares
Carclaze Community Primary School ranked 97th of 209 primary schools in Cornwall for KS2 results in 2024/25. Its KS2 result was higher than 47% of England primary schools that published results in 2024/25. Its absence rate was lower than 81% of England schools in 2024/25.
| School | KS2 RWM (2024/25) | Absence | FSM (6 years) | Pupils | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 63% | 4.2% | 21% | 377 | — |
| Sandy Hill Academy | 72% | 3.9% | 19.7% | 455 | 0.6 miles |
| Bishop Bronescombe CofE School | 58% | 4.6% | 21.8% | 267 | 0.8 miles |
| Mount Charles School | 62% | 4.3% | 37.9% | 333 | 0.9 miles |
| Sky Primary and Eden Project Nursery | — | 4.8% | 17.2% | 118 | 1.1 miles |
| Charlestown Primary School | 59% | 5.6% | 10.3% | 372 | 1.3 miles |
Results reflect each school's cohort as much as its teaching, and free school meals share is context, not a judgement. Small gaps between neighbouring schools are rarely meaningful on their own.
Inspection history
-
Graded inspection report6 May 2026
- 9 November 2021
School context
From the 2024/25 school census and absence figures.
- Free school meals (last 6 years)
- 20.98%
- English as an additional language
- 1%
- Overall absence
- 4.17%
- Persistent absence
- 7.39%
Location
Nearby schools
-
Sandy Hill Academy0.6 miles
Primary · St Austell
-
Bishop Bronescombe CofE School0.8 miles
Primary · St Austell
-
Mount Charles School0.9 miles
Primary · St Austell
-
Sky Primary and Eden Project Nursery1.1 miles
Primary · St Austell
-
Charlestown Primary School1.3 miles
Primary · St Austell
Other schools in St Austell
Carclaze Community Primary School ranks 5th of the 14 ranked primary schools in St Austell.
- Bishop Bronescombe CofE School Primary
- Bugle School Primary
- Charlestown Primary School Primary
- Gorran School Primary
- Mevagissey Community Primary School Primary
- Mount Charles School Primary
- Nanpean Community Primary School Primary
- Roche Community Primary School Primary
- Sandy Hill Academy Primary
- Sky Primary and Eden Project Nursery Primary
- St Dennis Primary Academy Primary
- St Mewan Community Primary School Primary
Common questions
- What year groups does Carclaze Community Primary School teach?
- Carclaze Community Primary School teaches children aged 4 to 11. It is a primary school in St Austell.
- Who is the headteacher of Carclaze Community Primary School?
- The headteacher of Carclaze Community Primary School is Mrs Emma Williams, as recorded in the Department for Education's register of schools.
- When was Carclaze Community Primary School last inspected?
- Ofsted has inspected Carclaze Community Primary School, and its latest judgement is set out in the inspection section on this page, with the framework and the date it was made.
- How big is Carclaze Community Primary School?
- Carclaze Community Primary School has 377 pupils on roll, teaching children aged 4 to 11.
- Is Carclaze Community Primary School full?
- Carclaze Community Primary School has capacity for 420 pupils and 377 on roll (90%), so it has space against its published capacity. Places are allocated through the local authority's admissions process, so capacity alone does not tell you whether a place is available.
- Is Carclaze Community Primary School a faith school?
- No. Carclaze Community Primary School has no designated religious character.
- Does Carclaze Community Primary School have a nursery?
- No. The schools register records Carclaze Community Primary School as having no nursery classes.
- Who runs Carclaze Community Primary School?
- Carclaze Community Primary School is part of CORNWALL EDUCATION LEARNING TRUST. Schools in a trust or federation share leadership and governance, but each keeps its own inspection record and results.
- How have Carclaze Community Primary School's results changed over recent years?
- Its share of pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths was 70% in 2022/23 and 63% in 2024/25. The year-by-year figures, alongside local and national averages, are charted in the trends section on this page.
- How does Carclaze Community Primary School rank locally?
- Carclaze Community Primary School ranked 97th of 209 primary schools in Cornwall for key stage 2 results. Its KS2 result was higher than 47% of England primary schools that published results in 2024/25. Its absence rate was lower than 81% of England schools in 2024/25. Results reflect each cohort as well as the school, so treat rankings as a starting point.
- What is Carclaze Community Primary School's absence rate?
- Carclaze Community Primary School's overall absence rate is 4.2% in the latest published census, at or below the England average of 6.2%.
- What are Carclaze Community Primary School's exam results?
- Where the Department for Education has published them, Carclaze Community Primary School's key stage results are shown in the results section on this page, with the last three years so you can see the trend rather than a single year.
School details come from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Inspection outcomes come from Ofsted, and exam results from the Department for Education's school performance service. This page was last updated on 15 July 2026.