Schools yes, verdicts not here. Several primaries across the town and its villages. Hailsham Academy is the state secondary. Bede's Senior School is the independent option. The names are public; the grades are someone else's homework.
The primary options across the area include Grovelands Community Primary School, Hawkes Farm Academy, Hellingly Community Primary School, Herstmonceux Church of England Primary School, Park Mead Primary School, Thornton Grove Academy, and White House Academy. Hailsham Academy itself runs a primary phase alongside its secondary, opened in 2019. For state secondary education the main option is Hailsham Academy on Battle Road, which holds specialist sports college status. For private secondary education the local option is Bede's Senior School, formerly St Bede's. East Sussex Academy and The Ropemakers' Academy sit in the area as additional non-mainstream options.
Being near a school is not the same as having a place at it. East Sussex schools allocate places using a published set of criteria that include sibling links, faith for some schools, and straight-line distance. These criteria shift year by year, oversubscription cut-offs move with applicant numbers, and the postcode you bought into in March can stop fitting the catchment by September. Anyone buying a house specifically for a school should call the school's admissions office and the council before they call the estate agent back.
The current school-inspection picture for the Hailsham-area schools is not carried in this report. The brief does not include current grades for the schools listed above. That is not a verdict on the schools. It is a statement about what this page can and cannot tell you. The official register of school inspections is public, free, and updated as inspections happen. Before signing anything, look it up directly for every school in the catchment of the house you're considering, and read the actual report rather than the cover-page badge.
There is one Hailsham school story that does turn up in the cultural record. The novel Never Let Me Go uses a fictional school called Hailsham as the setting for its boarding-school childhood, although the film adaptation was shot at Ham House in Surrey rather than in the town itself. The real schools of Hailsham are not that school. They are a small set of state primaries, one state secondary, and one independent option, in a market town with a steady catchment and a quiet reputation.
A fair average is the honest verdict. There are real schools to choose from. There is no current grading to weight that choice in this report. Anyone making a decision should treat the names above as a starting list, not a recommendation.