The schools here are good, and that is the flat answer rather than the polite one. Twenty of the twenty two graded settings across the borough come back good or better. Two are outstanding. None are inadequate. Primary maths sits at 105, a scale nobody has ever properly explained to a parent, so here is the short version of it: that is a good number. Not everything about this town holds up under inspection. The schools do.
Five mainstream state primaries serve the area, and their average Key Stage 2 maths score across the last published results is 105. Brixham Church of England Primary, Furzeham Primary and Galmpton Church of England Primary take much of the town between them, with the remaining primaries in and around it covering the rest. The typical primary run works out at about seven minutes by car, which in a town built up a hill is less a question of distance than of which slope you live on.
Two mainstream state secondaries sit in the area, and the pupil weighted Attainment 8 score across them is about 53. Brixham College is the town's own secondary, with Churston Ferrers Grammar School Academy the other within reach. The nearest secondary is roughly 23 minutes on foot for the typical household, or about ten by car, so the school run here is a real journey rather than a walk to the end of the road.
Ofsted's counts cover the whole of Torbay rather than Brixham on its own, and across the authority 20 of the 22 settings carrying a published overall grade come out good or better. That is roughly nine in ten. Two hold outstanding, two sit at requires improvement, and nothing is graded inadequate, which is a cleaner sweep than most coastal authorities manage. A further 15 settings have no published grade at all, and that means not yet inspected rather than quietly failing, whatever a nervous parent wants to read into a blank.
None of it guarantees your child a desk. A school name in a property listing is decoration, not an admission letter: places are allocated on the authority's criteria as they stand in the year you apply, popular schools fill up, and the boundary that mattered to the family who sold you the house is not a boundary you inherit. Anyone buying on the strength of a particular school should confirm the current admission rules with the council first and the estate agent never.
Plenty about Brixham comes with a condition attached. The schools are the part that does not, and if children are the reason you are looking at the town, they are the strongest thing on the whole list.