Good, and the only real complaint is geography. The primary sits in the village, close enough to walk. Every secondary option belongs to somebody else's town. Across the county, four in five graded schools are rated good or better. So the schooling question here is less about quality and more about who is doing the driving at eight in the morning.
Ofsted has graded 172 settings across Devon, the local authority Fremington belongs to, and 138 of those hold a grade of good or better. Three are rated outstanding, 31 require improvement and 3 are inadequate. A further 135 settings carry no published grade at all, which means not yet inspected rather than anything worse. Those are county-wide numbers covering everything from a village primary to a sixth form fifty miles away, so treat them as the odds rather than the school. Four in five is a decent county to be gambling in, but the grade that matters is the one on the school your child would actually attend, and that is a single inspection report rather than a proportion.
Being near a school is not the same as getting into it. Devon runs its own admissions process, distance is one input among several, and the sensible order of operations is to establish the current position with the county and the school before the offer on the house, not after. Estate agent listings have been quoting catchment areas with great confidence and no authority since long before anybody reading this was buying.
Fremington Primary School is the one that carries the village name and the village history, tracing back to a boys' school founded in the village in 1873, whose old school house was sold off by the county in 1982 and is now somebody's home. Beyond it, Instow Community Primary and Pre-School sits along the estuary, and a scatter of small village primaries covers the surrounding parishes, most of them the size where the head knows every family by name and there is nowhere to hide if you are late. Secondary means leaving: Pilton Community College towards Barnstaple, Bideford College the other way, with Atlantic Academy also on the list. Pathfield School provides the specialist provision for the area.
The Department for Transport's modelled journey times, which date from 2019, put a primary school about 11 minutes away on foot or 7 by car. A secondary is about 18 minutes by car, 39 by public transport and roughly 89 minutes walking, that last figure being a number produced by a model rather than a plan anyone has ever executed. The practical version is that primary years are a walk and secondary years are a bus pass, which is standard for a village of this size and still worth knowing before you commit to the second car.
Schooling is among the strongest things this area has going for it, provided you accept that the good options mostly begin at the edge of the village rather than inside it.