The schools in Brockenhurst are a known quantity in name and an unknown one on paper. The village runs its own Church of England primary, there is a second primary just along the road at Beaulieu, and Brockenhurst College handles the older students. What none of them currently carries is a published inspection grade. So the honest verdict lands in the middle, not because the teaching is ordinary, but because there is no official mark on record to say either way.
Start with the little ones. Brockenhurst Church of England Primary School and Pre-School sits inside the village, close enough that a primary place is roughly a twelve to thirteen minute walk from the average front door, or about ten minutes on public transport. Beaulieu Village Primary School covers the estate village to the south-east for families settled at that end. Both are small village primaries, which is exactly what you would expect of a place this size, and neither has a live inspection rating attached to it for a parent to lean on.
For the older years, Brockenhurst College is the anchor. It is a genuine draw, one of the reasons families with teenagers look at this corner of the New Forest at all. Getting there is easy from the village and harder from the fringes: reckon on around twenty minutes by car to secondary provision, or closer to forty on public transport if you are relying on the bus and the branch line. That gap between car and bus is worth weighing before you assume the school run sorts itself out.
One thing to be clear about. Living near a school in Brockenhurst does not book you a seat in it. Admissions run on their own criteria, places fill, and popular schools turn away families who assumed proximity was enough. The brief carries no catchment maps and no guaranteed boundaries, so treat any assumption about which door your child walks through as something to confirm with the school and the council before you buy, not after. A postcode is a hope, not a ticket.
The blunt version is that Brockenhurst's schools rate as average, a three out of five, and that score is a shrug rather than a criticism. With not a single current inspection grade to point at, nobody has done the judging for you. The names are there, the college is a real asset, and the walk to the village primary is short. Beyond that, you go and look for yourself, because the paperwork that usually settles this argument does not exist here yet.