Helston School is a mixed 11-19 comprehensive school with more than 90 teaching staff and 1650 pupils situated in the far West of the County of Cornwall. We draw our pupils from the town of Helston and the surrounding rural area and work closely with about 20 Feeder Primary Schools. The presence of the Royal Naval Air Stations at Culdrose means that the population of Helston has a varied admixture of families from all over the country.

The School and Community College is large and flourishing and students follow a wide range of courses, including GCSEs, GNVQs at Intermediate and Advanced Level, AS Levels and A2 Levels. Years 7—11 are located on the main school site with the Community College on its own dedicated Post-16 Site.

Music flourishes throughout the whole school. The highly successful music department is housed in a new £1,000,000 purpose built facility on the College Site, but used by all age groups and the wider community.

As well as offering peripatetic music teaching of a multitude of musical instruments, students from the entire age range are encouraged to join in any of the following extra-curricular musical activities:

Senior Mixed Choir Percussion Ensemble
Rock Ensembles Guitar Ensemble
Senior Girls Choir Brass Band
Flute/Clarinet Ensembles Sax Ensemble
Grade V Theory Class Junior Mixed Choir
Windband String Ensemble
Helston School Jazz Orchestras

Sell-out Christmas Concerts and Summer Concerts are held every year involving hundreds of students. In 1999 the inaugural “Young Performer of the Year” competition (sponsored by the Rotary Club) was held for both Primary School and Helston School and College musicians and proved so successful that it has become a regular bi-annual event.