The schools in Cheddar are solid without being spectacular, and the real selling point is geography: a child can go from the early years to sixth form without leaving the village. Cheddar runs the old three-tier system, first school then middle then upper. The Kings of Wessex Academy carries them through to eighteen, sixth form included. Around it sit first schools in Cheddar itself and the parishes next door. The grades are ordinary. The convenience is not.
Cheddar First School handles the youngest children in the village, and it feeds up alongside first schools in the surrounding villages: Axbridge Church of England First School Academy, Draycott and Rodney Stoke Church of England First School, and Weare Academy First School. From there children move through the middle stage and into the Kings of Wessex Academy, a comprehensive with a sixth form that also runs the village's fitness centre and swimming pool. It's a genuinely joined-up run from four to eighteen, which is rarer than it sounds. Most places make you scatter your children across three postcodes and hope the buses line up.
On grades, the wider Somerset picture is middling rather than glowing. Across the graded schools in the area, a little under half rate good or better, only a handful carry an outstanding, and a meaningful chunk sit at requires-improvement or below. That's the county average pressing on the village more than the village earning it, but it's the backdrop your options sit against, so read each school on its own current inspection rather than on the postcode's reputation.
None of these names is a guarantee. A first school or an upper school in the village doesn't come attached to your deeds, and admission runs on the usual distance and preference rules rather than on which house you bought. If one specific school is the reason you're moving, get the current admissions criteria in writing before you commit, because the boundary that counts is this year's, not the one a neighbour describes from memory.
The schools here are average and complete, and that's a fairer trade than it looks on paper. You won't be prising a league-table trophy out of Cheddar, but you can raise a child from four to eighteen inside one village, and plenty of parents would take that deal without a second thought.