Falmouth School

This article is about the secondary school. For the Falmouth School of Art, see Falmouth University.

Falmouth School (formerly Trescobeas County Secondary School) is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form with academy status, located in Falmouth in the county of Cornwall.^[2]

Falmouth School
Address
Trescobeas Road Falmouth , Cornwall , TR11 4LH England
Coordinates	50°09′29″N 5°05′44″W / 50.1581°N 5.09554°W / 50.1581; -5.09554Coordinates: 50°09′29″N 5°05′44″W / 50.1581°N 5.09554°W / 50.1581; -5.09554
Information
Type	Academy
Motto	Achieving Continuing Excellence
Established	1899
Department for Education URN	137223 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Head teacher	Alex George^[1]
Staff	100 (approx.)
Gender	Coeducational
Age	11 to 18
Capacity	1,289 (100 in 6th form college)
Houses	Smithwick, Boscawen, Trelawney, Melvill
Colour(s)	Blue
Website	http://www.falmouth.cornwall.sch.uk/

Previously a community school administered by Cornwall Council, Falmouth School converted to academy status on 1 August 2011.^[3] However the school continues to coordinate with Cornwall Council for admissions. The school also has plans to sell its playing fields to buy the former Budock Hospital site and turn it into a sports centre for use by the school and local community.^[4]

Falmouth School offers GCSEs and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils, while students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of A-levels, OCR Nationals, NVQs and further BTECs.^[5]

In 2019, the school received a rating of Inadequate in an Ofsted inspection, the lowest possible rating you can get from one.^[6]

Notable former pupils

• Mike Barnett, Australian politician
• Matthew Etherington, footballer
• Sarah Newton, politician
• Oliver Parker, film director
• Charlotte Watts, mathematician, epidemiologist and academic^[7]

References

1. "Welcome Back to the start of Spring Term 2018Headteacher's Blog - Welcome to Falmouth School's Website".
2. "Welcome Back to the start of Spring Term 2018Headteacher's Blog - Welcome to Falmouth School's Website". www.falmouth.cornwall.sch.uk. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
3. . Falmouth.cornwall.sch.uk. 1 August 2011. Archived from the original on 24 February 2015. Retrieved 3 June 2014.
4. "Budock Hospital site school sports plan a step closer after deal agreed (From Falmouth Packet)". Falmouthpacket.co.uk. 19 July 2013. Retrieved 3 June 2014.
5. "Courses and Prospectus". Falmouth.cornwall.sch.uk. Retrieved 3 June 2014.
6. "Ofsted Falmouth School". reports.ofsted.gov.uk. Retrieved 23 April 2022.
7. Watts, Prof. Charlotte Helen. Who's Who 2019. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2018. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U286527. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4. Retrieved 31 January 2021.

External links

• Falmouth School official website