The schools around East Peckham are good, and the odds are on your side. About nine in ten graded schools across the county are good or better. The village has its own primary. The nearest secondaries mean a bus or a car. Whether you get a place is a different question from whether the schools are good.
The Ofsted figures cover all of Kent, not East Peckham alone. Of 245 Kent schools with a published overall grade, 221 are good or outstanding, so roughly nine in ten. Thirty-eight are outstanding, 21 require improvement and three are inadequate. Another 255 settings have no published grade yet and aren't counted either way. At county level, those are strong numbers. The county total can't tell you about the school at the end of your road, though, and that's the one you'll be applying to.
East Peckham Primary School is the village's own. The Department for Transport's 2019 modelling puts the nearest primary about 15 minutes' walk from the typical home, or about eight minutes by car. Mereworth Community Primary School and Laddingford St Mary's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School are also on the local map, so families have a few village primaries to weigh up. There's no individual Ofsted grade here for any of them, so check each school's latest report before a viewing starts shaping the decision.
Secondary means travelling. The same 2019 modelling puts the nearest secondary about 14 minutes away by car, 30 by public transport and over an hour on foot. Hadlow Rural Community School and Leigh Academy Mascalls are the nearby names. Treat the public transport time with some caution, because bus routes have changed since those figures were modelled. Two nearby schools on older listings have since closed, so check that any school you're considering is still open.
None of this guarantees a place. Admissions are decided by the published rules for each school, and a school being nearby is not the same as a place in it. Parents who buy a house because of the school down the road and skip the admissions criteria sometimes discover the gap in the spring offer letter. Read the rules before you read the Ofsted reports.
The schools are one of the area's real strengths. Plan the secondary school run as carefully as the house purchase.