Good, and every one of them is at the bottom of a hill. Nine in ten Kent schools are rated good or better. Primary results sit above the usual mark. The nearest primary is a twenty-minute walk and the nearest secondary is most of an hour. Getting in is harder than being impressed.
There are 2 mainstream state primaries in the area, and their end-of-primary maths results averaged a scaled score of about 105. That's a solid showing, the kind that doesn't make headlines because nothing went wrong. The primaries families here look at sit down the slope in the Walderslade and Lordswood direction, including Walderslade Primary School and Tunbury Primary School. The nearest primary is about 20 minutes on foot, 17 by public transport and 11 by car. The walk is fine on the way down. Seven-year-olds have opinions about the way back.
Across the county, Ofsted has graded 221 of Kent's 245 inspected settings good or outstanding. That's nine in every ten, and it covers the whole local authority, not just this corner of it. Of those, 38 are outstanding. Another 21 were judged as requiring improvement and 3 were inadequate, so the dud schools exist but you have to look for them. A further 255 settings have no published grade yet, which means not inspected under the current system, not bad. The county's schools are a pool you'd be happy to fish in.
Secondary is where the geography starts making decisions for you. The nearest secondary is about 43 minutes' walk, 23 by public transport or 13 by car. Walderslade School is the obvious local option. Chatham Grammar is the one parents with a bright child start circling on the calendar a year early. A grammar school place is its own admissions process, not something that comes with the postcode.
None of the schools named here comes with a guarantee. Admissions are decided school by school each year, on criteria the schools and the county set, and living nearby puts you in the conversation without winning it. Check the admission rules for the specific school and the specific year before you let a school name close a house sale. Buyers who skip that step usually find out in spring.
For a village this small, the schooling is one of its real strengths. The standard is high and the choice is wide. You'll be driving the school run for years.