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Par, Cornwall. What the published figures say about its schools, its homes and daily life, each with its source and date.

3schools in Par
88%gigabit broadband

Schools

3 schools: 3 state primary, 0 state secondary
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Primary: expected standard, 2025 results (DfE) · red mark: Cornwall 60%ResultOfsted
1Tywardreath SchoolPrimary · Top 30% (62/212) · 70%School remains Good
2Biscovey AcademyPrimary · (110/212) · 61%Good
Every school in Par, with inspection, league band and the last place offered

State primary schools (3)

SchoolInspectionLeague rankLast place offered
Tywardreath SchoolSchool remains GoodTop 30% (62/212) in Cornwall—
Biscovey AcademyGood(110/212) in Cornwall—
Biscovey Nursery and Infants' AcademyStandards maintained——

Rank: the school's place among its council's schools of the same phase, from three years of DfE results (kinplace's league table, how it is worked out); schools with hidden or no results get none. Inspections: Ofsted and ISI. Last place offered: the council's offer-day figures. School register: DfE Get Information about Schools, updated 17 October 2026.

Homes and prices

Typical sale, last 12 months (Land Registry)

We don't hold Land Registry sales for Par yet, so its typical prices are unknown here.

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Getting around

Stops and stations (NaPTAN), and broadband (Ofcom)
1railway station within 2 km: Par Rail Station (0.7 miles)
9bus stops within 1 km of the town centre

Source: DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes). Straight-line distances.

Gigabit broadband can be ordered at 88% of premises, and superfast (30 Mbit/s) at 96%, on average across the 240 postcodes in PL24. Check the postcode you are looking at: it can differ street by street.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, July 2025, fixed broadband coverage by postcode (an average of postcodes, not of homes).

Safety and environment

The town centre; addresses vary
0 recorded a yearCrimeInside the town's outline, September 2025 to August 2026. Source: data.police.uk, street-level crime inside the ONS built-up area outline; people from Census 2021. A town centre with shops and pubs records more crime per resident than a suburb.
Flood zone 3FloodAt the town centre, the area is in flood zone 3 for rivers and the sea on the Environment Agency's Flood Map for Planning. Surface-water risk: we don't hold that map, so it is unknown here. One point says little about a whole town, and the zones describe the area, not a building: check the address on the Environment Agency's long-term flood risk service.Source: Environment Agency, Flood Map for Planning (Rivers and Sea), read from its open download. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. Open Government Licence v3.0.
NO₂ 2.8AirAt the town centre, an annual mean on DEFRA's 1 km map: nitrogen dioxide 2.8 µg/m³ (2024); PM2.5 5.0 µg/m³ (2024); PM10 9.5 µg/m³ (2024). A background figure, not the air beside a busy road. Source: DEFRA, Pollution Climate Mapping (PCM) 1 km background maps.

Childcare

Ofsted early years register; published prices
3registered nurseries and pre-schools
unknownnone of their fees is held yet

What Ofsted found: 3 good, or expected standard. A typical nursery place in this region costs about £6.66 an hour for a two-year-old.

All of them: 3 in Cornwall.

Sources: Ofsted, Childcare providers and inspections; each nursery's own fees page, read by 16 October 2026; Coram Family and Childcare, Childcare Survey 2026: average nursery price for 50 hours a week after the working-parent entitlement (paying for 20 hours), by region.

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Key dates, Cornwall

The next dates for families applying
Secondary applications close31 Oct 2026
Primary applications close15 Jan 2027
Secondary offer day1 Mar 2027

Application deadlines and offer days: Cornwall.

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