North Cornwall Alternative Provision Academy
North Cornwall Alternative Provision Academy is an academy alternative provision converter in Bodmin for boys and girls aged 5 to 16. It has 47 pupils and room for 75. About 68 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, far more than at most schools in England. Ofsted visited in May 2026 and gave it a report card, which is below.
3-5 Barn Lane, Bodmin, PL31 1LZ01840 213968wavemat.orgMr Huw Morgan principalAll details
What Ofsted found
Ofsted visited on 6 May 2026. Instead of one overall word, it now gives a grade for each part of school life. Read the full report on Ofsted's website.
Ofsted says these new grades can't be lined up against the old one-word grades.
Earlier inspections (1)
| Date | Type | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| 6 June 2024 | Ungraded | School remains Good |
Getting a place
Admissions policy not published.
Each council publishes its own figures on how many families applied and how far away the last child to get a place lived. We are adding councils one at a time. If you have a link to Cornwall council's admissions booklet, send it to us.
Who goes here
Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.
The most common needs among pupils getting extra support: emotional and mental health (29), SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need (6), Other difficulty or disability (4), Autistic spectrum disorder (3), language and communications needs (3), Specific learning difficulty (2).
How the mix of pupils has changed
| Census | 2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils on roll | 47 | 46 | 37 | 25 | 13 | 23 |
| Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals | 68% | 80% | 65% | 68% | 31% | 44% |
| Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language | 0% | 0% | 3% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Pupils getting extra supportSEN support | – | 78% | 87% | 92% | 69% | 70% |
| Pupils with an EHC planEducation, health and care plans | – | 22% | 14% | 8% | 31% | 30% |
What pupils do next
After GCSEs
Where the 9 pupils who left in 2020/21 were a year later.
Staff and money
From the government's count of school staff in November 2025 and the school's published accounts.
Money
From the academy accounts return, year to August 2025. The per-pupil figures are compared with other primary schools in England that report their accounts the same way.
Reserves are the money left over at the end of the year, kept back for emergencies and big projects. Being in the red year after year is a warning sign. Very large reserves can mean money sitting in the bank instead of being spent on today's pupils. Academy figures are rounded to the nearest £1,000 and include a share of any money the trust holds centrally.
The area around the school
Crime figures come from police.uk. The police record each crime at the nearest of a fixed set of map points rather than the exact spot, so “within 500 m” is only rough. House prices are from HM Land Registry sales nearby over the last two years.
Nearby schools
The closest schools, nearest first. Hover over a row to see it on the map.
| School | Type | Distance | Pupils | Ofsted | Score | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Bodmin | Academy | 120 m | 239 | Not inspected | 29 | Compare |
| Beacon Academy | Academy | 350 m | 448 | Not inspected | 88 | Compare |
| Berrycoombe School | Academy | 380 m | 197 | Good 2022 | 30 | Compare |
| St Petroc's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School | Academy | 0.7 miles | 500 | No overall grade 2025 | 48 | Compare |
| Bodmin College | Academy | 1.1 miles | 1,236 | No overall grade 2024 | 24 | Compare |
| Callywith College | Free schools 16 to 19 | 1.1 miles | 0 | Not inspected | – | Compare |
| Nanstallon Community Primary School | Foundation | 1.6 miles | 111 | Report card 2026 | 4 | Compare |
| Bosvena School | Free school | 2.1 miles | 16 | Not inspected | – | Compare |
Questions parents ask
Is North Cornwall Alternative Provision Academy a good school?
North Cornwall Alternative Provision Academy doesn't have a score yet. Ofsted's report card from May 2026 rated its teaching as .
What is North Cornwall Alternative Provision Academy's Ofsted rating?
Ofsted no longer gives schools one overall grade. When it visited on 6 May 2026 it rated .
How many pupils does North Cornwall Alternative Provision Academy have?
47 pupils aged 5 to 16 were on the roll in January 2026. It has 75 places, so it is 63% full.
These answers come straight from the figures on this page and update when new data comes out.
Contact and details
- Address
- 3-5 Barn Lane, Bodmin, PL31 1LZ
- Telephone
- 01840 213968
- Website
- www.wavemat.org
- Principal
- Mr Huw Morgan
- Type of school
- Academy alternative provision converter (Academy alternative provision converter, academies)
- Phase
- Pupil referral unit / alternative provision, ages 5-16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Multi-academy trust
- Wave Multi Academy Trust (11 schools)
- Local authority
- Cornwall
- Ward
- Bodmin St Mary's & St Leonard
- Constituency
- North Cornwall
- Setting
- Urban: Further from a major town or city
- Opened
- 1 June 2013 (academy converter)
- URN
- 139759 · LAESTAB 9081103 · UKPRN 10041824
- Formerly
- North Cornwall Short Stay School
Where these figures come from
- School details: Department for Education, Get Information About Schools, refreshed daily (this page rebuilt 13 September 2026).
- Inspections: Ofsted management information, monthly; latest publication in our data 27 August 2026.
- Pupil characteristics: DfE school census, January 2026.
- Staff: DfE school workforce census, November 2025.
- Pupil premium: DfE allocations and conditions of grant, 2026 to 2027.
- Money: DfE financial benchmarking and insights tool, academy accounts return 2024/25.
- Neighbourhood: police.uk street-level crime, HM Land Registry price paid data, NaPTAN bus stops, English Indices of Deprivation 2025.
- All under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Full list and update calendar.