Decent, and the primary is the point. The village has its own school on the southern edge, built on ground that used to be hospital playing fields, taking children from four to eleven with a pre-school on site. Maths results in the area sit slightly ahead of the national benchmark. The secondary is not in the village and never was. Parents here get a short walk for a decade, then a bus.
Cotford St Luke Primary School opened in 2003 and runs ten classes, with a pre-school on the same site taking children from three. Across the wider area there are three mainstream state primaries in the key stage two results, and the average maths score comes out at about 103, where 100 is the national benchmark. That is a modest margin rather than a dramatic one, but it points the right way, and for a village primary the more relevant fact is that most families can walk to it. The other primaries around here, at Bishops Lydeard, Milverton, Wiveliscombe, Oake and Lydeard St Lawrence among them, serve their own villages in much the same fashion.
On inspections, Ofsted has graded 101 of 140 settings good or better across Somerset, which is roughly seven in ten, with five rated outstanding. On the other side of the ledger, 32 sit at requires improvement and seven at inadequate. A further 81 settings hold no published grade at all, either because they are awaiting a first inspection or because their category does not carry one, and they should not be read as either good or bad. Those counts cover the whole of Somerset rather than this village, so treat them as the climate rather than the forecast: a county where most schools are sound and a meaningful minority are not, which means the individual school matters more than the county average ever will.
Secondary means Kingsmead Academy in Wiveliscombe, which is the catchment school for the village, with a free bus service provided for children in the catchment areas. That arrangement is the single most useful practical fact for a family moving here, and it is worth confirming directly with the school before you commit, because bus provision and catchment definitions are the sort of thing that get revised without anyone telling the estate agent.
Which brings up the thing every parent learns the hard way. A school being nearby, or named as the catchment school, is not the same as a place at it. Admissions are run on published criteria, oversubscription happens, and the distance from your front door to the school gate is a number the local authority calculates rather than one you negotiate. Buyers who check the current admissions arrangements before they offer tend to be the ones who are calm in March. The ones who assume the postcode does the work are the ones on the phone to the council about waiting lists.
Taken together, the schooling here is solidly above average without being the reason anyone moves to Somerset. A good primary within walking distance, a secondary a bus ride away, and a county picture that rewards checking the specific school rather than trusting the average.