Flushing School

Flushing School is a small Church of England primary school in Cornwall that was inspected in November 2024. The school was judged good in all key areas, with effective safeguarding and a positive, caring culture. Pupils feel safe and happy, behave well, and benefit from warm relationships with staff. Leaders have high expectations, and most pupils achieve well across a broad and ambitious curriculum. Reading has a high priority, phonics teaching has improved, and pupils who struggle receive effective support to catch up.

Strengths

• Caring school with warm relationships where pupils feel safe and happy
• Pupils behave well, are polite and courteous, and older pupils support younger ones
• Broad and ambitious curriculum is logically sequenced to help pupils remember more
• Reading has a high priority and phonics teaching has improved over two years
• Most pupils learn to read confidently and fluently by the end of key stage 1
• Pupils with SEND are well cared for and access the full curriculum alongside peers
• Classrooms are calm and purposeful, supporting pupils to focus on learning
• Personal development programme teaches safety, diversity and active citizenship
• Attendance and punctuality are given high priority with strong parent relationships
• Staff are happy and proud to work at the school and appreciate leaders' consideration of wellbeing
• Governance is committed, knowledgeable and effective in holding leaders to account
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective

Areas for Improvement

• Support for pupils with SEND is variable and learning is not always closely matched to their needs
• For some pupils with SEND, learning is not adapted well enough, limiting engagement and progress
• New SEND identification systems are still in their infancy for some pupils

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Flushing School attended 94.0% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 11.1% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 0.0% of pupils at Flushing School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Flushing School had 13.5 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 0.0% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 19.0% of pupils at Flushing School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 1.7% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded primary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2025–26 Flushing School received £10,246 and spent £11,151 for each of its 58 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £8,000 (£139 per pupil).

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24).

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What is Flushing School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Flushing School is Good, from an inspection in December 2024.

When was Flushing School last inspected by Ofsted?

Flushing School was last inspected in December 2024.

How many pupils does Flushing School have?

Flushing School has 58 pupils on roll.

What age range does Flushing School cover?

Flushing School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

What are Flushing School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 75% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Flushing School?

Flushing School is at Coventry Road, Flushing, Falmouth, Cornwall, TR11 5TX.