Sir James Smith's School

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Sir James Smith's School is a small humanities college in the town of Camelford, North Cornwall, UK.

Founded as a grammar school in 1679, at a property overlooking the town, the school has been a state-run comprehensive school since 1962 when it moved to its current premises in Dark Lane.

The catchment area for Sir James Smith's covers a large and in parts sparsley populated region of north Cornwall, stretching at the coast from Crackington Haven down to Port Isaac, and reaching inland as far as St. Breward and Bodmin Moor. Villages in the catchment area also include Tintagel, Boscastle, Delabole and St. Teath. The SJS catchment area is one of the most deprived areas of the UK and the EU. The current headteacher is Jon Lawrence, who succeeded Angela Perlmutter in January 2007.

The school currently has about 650 pupils aged 11-16 and about 60 6th formers, making it one of the smallest state schools in Cornwall and the UK, with its neighbouring schools boasting between 1200 - 2100 pupils aged 11-16 and 200+ 6th formers.

The School has recently had many building projects including an extension to the adult education building, The West End music and drama suite (2004) a reception and office (2003), a new Maths Block (2001) and The Princess of Wales Design Centre(Arts and Technology) (1992). The school is currently undergoing some building work, with a new 6th form block being built, and parts of the school being given a facelift.

The school's colours are bottle green and red.