The schools in Bognor Regis are functional rather than famous. Two secondaries serve the town between them: The Regis School and Felpham Community College. A clutch of primary schools sits beneath them. A campus of the University of Chichester runs at the town's edge for the ones who get that far. Whether your children thrive here depends on which side of which catchment line your house sits, not on any one school's reputation.
A school name on a map does not mean a place at the school. West Sussex allocates secondary places on distance from the school gates, which sounds neutral and is, and which also means the offer letter in March is honest but not always what parents hoped. The same logic applies at primary level. Buying near a school is the closest thing to a guarantee, but the line moves year on year, and a sibling already at the gate beats a postcode every time.
On the primary side, the named in-catchment and near-catchment options across the wider town include Bartons Primary School, Bersted Green Primary School, Edward Bryant School, Downview Primary School, Nyewood Church of England Infant School and its paired Nyewood Church of England Junior School, Rose Green Infant School and Rose Green Junior School, South Bersted Church of England Primary School, Southway Primary School, and St Mary's Catholic Primary School for the Catholic route. Out in Felpham on the eastern flank, Bishop Tufnell Church of England Primary School covers families who land that side of the line. Barnham Primary School serves the village railhead to the north for households who have ended up there because the train mattered more than the sea. The independent fee-paying route is not in town: that is Lancing College Preparatory School at Worthing, which is a real morning drive in either direction.
For secondary, the two big in-town options are The Regis School and Felpham Community College, and which one your children go to depends almost entirely on geography. St Philip Howard Catholic School covers the Catholic faith route, and St Andrew's Church of England High School the other faith line. The wider net pulls eastwards to Bohunt School Worthing and Worthing High School for families who are prepared to put a child on a longer commute in exchange for a different name on the uniform. Realistically, most local families end up at one of the two Bognor secondaries, and which one is decided by the catchment officer rather than the parent.
What the schools are like in Bognor Regis is what they are in any large south-coast town: two big secondaries, a working spread of primaries, a faith route on both sides, and the catchment lottery that goes with all of it. Buy near the school you want, not the school you think you want.