Mounts Bay Academy Overview

Mounts Bay Academy is a secondary school located in Penzance and reports to the local authority of Cornwall.

Mounts Bay Academy is a mixed gender school that caters to students aged from 11 to 16 years old and it has no religious affiliations

Currently the school is oversubscribed as it has an official capacity of 1020 students but currently enrols 1031 pupils across all class years. This can generally mean that all applications to this school stand a much weaker chance of being accepted due to already being over capacity.

Mounts Bay Academy students range across many different ethnicities with White British being the predominant ethnicity, accounting for 91.7% of all current students. English as a 1st language accounts for 1.9% of students at the school.

21.7% of all students at the school qualify for free school meals and 0% of Mounts Bay Academy pupils are classed as SEN students who have a range of special educational needs.

Student Ethnicities