Good, in the unglamorous way that actually matters. One secondary takes the whole town. Two primaries sit inside it, with village schools ringing the rest of the catchment. Four in five graded settings across the county come out good or better. Nobody relocates here for the schools, and nobody has to relocate away because of them.
Ofsted has graded 172 settings across Devon, of which 138 are good or outstanding, so roughly four in five. Three carry an Outstanding grade, 31 sit at Requires Improvement, and 3 are rated Inadequate. A further 135 settings hold no published grade at all, which means not yet inspected rather than not good enough, and folding them into the maths would be dishonest in either direction. These are county-wide counts covering the whole of Devon, not a scorecard for Crediton alone, so treat them as the weather rather than the forecast for one street.
Naming a school is not the same as getting into it. Admissions run through the local authority, not through the school gate or the estate agent, and a popular year group fills up regardless of what the listing said about the address. Anyone buying on the strength of a particular school should check that year's admission arrangements and last year's allocation outcome before the offer goes in, because the rules are published and the assumptions are not.
Queen Elizabeth's is the secondary, and it has been educating this town since Edward VI first put its founding papers together, which makes most local institutions look like start-ups. Within the town, Hayward's Primary School and Landscore Primary School take the bulk of the primary intake. Outside it, the village schools do the rest: Copplestone Primary School and Bow Community Primary School among them, both covered by this page, with a string of other partner primaries scattered across the surrounding parishes. That structure is the thing to understand before you buy. A village primary is a genuinely different experience from a town one, and the choice usually gets made by which lane you end up living on.
The journeys are short. Department for Transport modelling from 2019 puts the nearest primary school about 11 minutes away on foot or 7 by car, and the nearest secondary at 9 minutes by car, 17 by public transport and 31 on foot. Those are the numbers a parent feels every morning for eleven years, and a nine-minute secondary run is the kind of thing people only appreciate after they have done the alternative.
Schooling is one of the strongest cards this town holds. The grades across the county sit comfortably on the right side of the line, the secondary is a single settled option rather than a lottery between three, and the primaries are close enough to walk to. For a family, that combination is worth more than most of what gets printed in a brochure.