The Cornerstone Academy (previously Carter Community School) is a co-educational secondary school located in Hamworthy, Poole, Dorset, England.

The school serves the Hamworthy and Turlin Moor areas and pupils are taken mostly from Hamworthy and Bayside Academy Junior Schools.

It was the first secondary school built after the Second World War in Poole, located on open fields at the southern end of the Hamworthy peninsula.The school has wide corridors and large classrooms which tell of its reserve purpose which was to act as a hospital should war break out again.

The school was awarded Good in an Ofsted report in January 2017.

Since 2004 standards have risen considerably and GCSE results continue to improve year on year with 48% of students achieving 5A* – C grades (including maths and English) in 2012.