Good, and the early years are the easy part. Four in five graded schools across Devon come out good or better. The primary carrying the town's name is a ten minute walk. The nearest secondary is a drive. Primary is a doorstep decision here, and secondary is a logistics one.
Ofsted has graded 172 settings across Devon, and 138 of those are good or outstanding, which is roughly four in five. Three carry outstanding, 31 require improvement, and three are rated inadequate. A further 135 settings hold no published grade at all, which is a gap in the record rather than a verdict on them, and anyone treating an ungraded setting as a bad one is reading the register wrong. These counts cover the whole county, not the streets around Chudleigh, so they set the background odds rather than describing any particular classroom.
Worth being blunt about the thing estate agent listings never quite say: living in a town does not entitle a child to its school. Places are allocated through the county admissions process, oversubscription is settled on published criteria, and the family that moves in August assuming a walk-to-school outcome is the family on the phone in September. Check the current admissions position for the specific school and the specific year group before the offer goes in, not after.
Chudleigh Church of England Community Primary School is the one that carries the town's name and the one most local families are actually talking about. Chudleigh Knighton Church of England Primary School serves the village of the same name, which this page also covers. South Dartmoor Community College is the named secondary in this catchment area, and it is the school most eleven-year-olds here move on to. Beyond those, the surrounding registers list a ring of small village and moorland primaries, most of them the size where the whole school fits in one hall for the nativity, plus a handful of settings outside the mainstream primary and secondary structure, including Sands School and Running Deer School.
The geography is the part that changes daily life. Department for Transport modelling from 2019 puts the nearest primary about seven minutes away by car, ten on foot, and about ten by public transport. The nearest secondary is a different proposition: about 15 minutes by car, 34 by public transport, and 88 minutes walking, which is a number that exists for the model rather than for any actual teenager in January. Families here typically run the primary years on foot and the secondary years on wheels, and the second half of that is worth costing before the move rather than discovering it in the first wet week of September.
For a town of this size, the schooling stacks up as one of the stronger reasons to be here, with a well-regarded county record behind it and a primary close enough to walk. Budget for the drive at eleven and the rest looks after itself.