Faversham's schools are a reason to move here, not a reason to hesitate. Nine in ten graded schools in the wider county rate good or better. The town has its own grammar school. A primary is about ten minutes' walk from the average home. The hard part is getting in, not finding a good one.
Ofsted has given a published grade to 245 schools and settings across Kent, the local authority that covers Faversham, and 221 of them are rated good or better. That is nine in every ten. Of those, 38 are outstanding. Only 21 require improvement and 3 are inadequate. These counts cover the whole county, not only the town, so read them as the standard of the system Faversham's children go through rather than a score for the local streets. Another 255 settings have no published grade yet, which says nothing about their quality in either direction.
For secondary school, Faversham has two options with very different entry rules. Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School traces its roots back centuries and in 1967 became the first co-educational grammar school in Kent. As a grammar school, getting in is a separate question from living nearby, and plenty of parents learn that later than they would have liked. The Abbey School, in the south of town beside the A2 London Road, is the non-selective option. Between them, the town covers both routes without anyone having to leave Faversham.
At primary level, St Mary of Charity CofE (Aided) Primary School carries the parish church's name. Ethelbert Road Primary School and Davington Primary School serve the town itself, and Ospringe Church of England Primary School takes the south-western edge. Beyond them, a ring of village primaries in the surrounding parishes gives families more choices than a town this size would usually have. In the Department for Transport's 2019 modelled journey times, the average home is about 11 minutes' walk from a primary school and about 26 minutes' walk from a secondary, or roughly 11 minutes by car.
None of this guarantees a place. Admission depends on each school's own rules, and for church schools and the grammar those rules go well beyond distance. Buying the house next to a school buys you the walk to its gate, not a seat inside it. The admissions criteria sound neutral until your child is the one just outside the cut-off. Check each school's published admissions policy and its record of past allocations before you offer, not after the letter arrives.
A grammar school, a non-selective secondary and a spread of primaries all within walking distance make schools one of Faversham's strongest cards. The only thing left for a family to arrange is the admission.