Good, and the secondary choice comes down to one school. The primaries post solid results. There's one state secondary, and it holds its own. Across the county, about four in five graded schools and settings are good or better. For a hilltop town, the schools are the part that needs the least apology.
Primary is where Crowborough has real choice. The nine mainstream state primaries around here average a Key Stage 2 maths score of about 103. That's a steady result, and no single school has to carry the town. Sir Henry Fermor Church of England Primary School bears the name of the benefactor who paid for the town's first church and school. Jarvis Brook Primary School serves the station end of town. St John's Church of England Primary School and Ashdown Primary School fill out a list long enough that parents can compare schools instead of taking whatever they're given. The others are described collectively here, not skipped.
Secondary is simpler, because there's only one option. Beacon Academy is the only mainstream state secondary in the area, and its pupil-weighted Attainment 8 score sits at about 50. That's a respectable figure for a school that takes the whole town rather than choosing its intake. The upside is that nobody spends Year 6 drawing up a spreadsheet of secondaries. The downside is that if Beacon Academy isn't right for your child, the next option means a bus, a car or school fees.
Ofsted's grades cover all of East Sussex, not just Crowborough, so treat them as the county's report card rather than the town's. Of the 67 settings with a published grade, 54 are good or better, which is roughly four in every five. Seven are outstanding, seven require improvement and six are inadequate. A further 84 settings have no published overall grade yet. That makes them ungraded, not failing, and they're left out of the count.
Being near a school doesn't get you a place at it. Admissions follow each school's published criteria, and those decide who gets in, not how close you live or how much you paid for the house. A listing that promises "catchment for" a named school is making a claim nobody can guarantee. Parents who assume the house comes with a place find out in April. Parents who read the admissions criteria before offering tend to find out nothing unpleasant at all.
Schools are one of Crowborough's real strengths. The primaries give families choice and the single secondary does the job, which is more than plenty of pricier towns can say.