Schools in Bodmin
Bodmin is the county town of Cornwall with 20 state schools - 16 primary and 1 secondary - serving the town and surrounding parishes in mid-Cornwall. Cornwall Council coordinates admissions for community schools, using home-to-school distance as the main tiebreaker after priority categories including looked-after children and siblings. The town's single secondary school, Bodmin College, serves the majority of secondary-age pupils in the area, with a catchment that includes surrounding villages.
Primary schools in Bodmin vary in size, and several smaller village primaries on the town's fringes apply a distance tiebreaker tied to the nearest school principle. Families relocating to the area should check whether their address falls within a school's published catchment or nearest-school distance. Cornwall Council publishes admissions policies and catchment boundary guidance each autumn for the following September intake.
School demand in Bodmin
Across the 18 schools in Bodmin with published capacity data, the average fill rate is 84%. 3 of them are currently at or above their published admission number, and at those schools catchment distance is likely to decide places at the next intake.
4 schools in Bodmin have a religious character, so faith criteria sit alongside catchment distance in their admissions policies.
16 of the schools in Bodmin are academies that set their own admissions criteria independently of Cornwall, so check each school's policy directly rather than assuming the council default applies.
6 of the schools in Bodmin have a current Ofsted rating, of which 6 are rated Good or Outstanding. Demand and catchment distance tend to be tightest at the highest-rated schools.
Primary schools in Bodmin: 3 oversubscribed (16)
St Wenn School
Primary · Foundation school
Bodmin · PL30 5PS
Nanstallon Community Primary School
Primary · Foundation school
Bodmin · PL30 5JZ
St Mabyn CofE School
Primary · Academy converter
Bodmin · PL30 3BQ
St Petroc's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
Primary · Academy converter
Bodmin · PL31 1DS
St Tudy CofE Primary School
Primary · Academy converter
Bodmin · PL30 3NH
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Bodmin
Primary · Academy converter
Bodmin · PL31 1LW
Luxulyan School
Primary · Academy converter
Bodmin · PL30 5EE
Lanlivery Primary Academy
Primary · Academy converter
Bodmin · PL30 5BT
Beacon Academy
Primary · Academy converter
Bodmin · PL31 1JQ
St Kew Academy
Primary · Academy converter
Bodmin · PL30 3ER
Blisland Primary Academy
Primary · Academy converter
Bodmin · PL30 4JX
Cardinham School
Primary · Academy converter
Bodmin · PL30 4BN
Lanivet Community Primary School
Primary · Academy converter
Bodmin · PL30 5HE
Berrycoombe School
Primary · Academy converter
Bodmin · PL31 2PH
St Teath Community Primary School
Primary · Academy converter
Bodmin · PL30 3JX
St Breward Community Primary School
Primary · Academy converter
Bodmin · PL30 4LX
Secondary Schools in Bodmin (1)
Other Schools in Bodmin (3)
North Cornwall Alternative Provision Academy
Not applicable · Academy alternative provision converter
Bodmin · PL31 1LZ
Callywith College
All through · Free schools 16 to 19
Bodmin · PL31 2GT
Bosvena School
Not applicable · Free schools special
Bodmin · PL30 4EW
Catchment area boundaries for schools in Bodmin are set by Cornwall and updated each year. The "last distance offered", how far the furthest successful applicant lived, changes annually based on the number of applications received.