Good, and the county's odds favour the parent. Nearly nine in ten graded schools are good or better. The infant and junior schools are a short walk from most doors. The secondary means a car or a bus. Primary school here is easy, and secondary school means a daily lift.
Ofsted has graded 211 schools and other settings across Hampshire, and 185 of them are good or outstanding. That's close to nine in ten. Among them, 27 are rated outstanding and 158 good. At the other end, 16 require improvement and 10 are inadequate. These counts cover the whole of Hampshire, not only Hook, so they describe the system your child enters rather than the building at the end of your road. Another 226 settings hold no published overall grade yet. They are not graded, which is different from being bad.
Hook Infant School and Hook Junior School are the two that carry the village's name, and they are the ones most buyers mean when they say "the schools are good here". A shared community association and local donors back them, which tells you about the parents: they don't just drop off at the gate, they fundraise. The Department for Transport's 2019 modelling puts the nearest primary about 15 minutes' walk from the typical home, or about 10 minutes by car. That is close enough for the school run to happen on foot, which makes it the least stressful part of the day in most Hook households.
Secondary is a different trip. Robert May's School is the state secondary named for the area. The same modelling puts the nearest secondary about 57 minutes away on foot, about 15 minutes by car and about 35 minutes by public transport. Nobody walks it. Parents who picture a teenager strolling to school from a Hook estate are thinking of a different village.
Nearby, Whitewater Church of England Primary School serves families on the rural side. Lord Wandsworth College gives parents who are willing to pay an independent option, and the fees are a separate conversation from the mortgage. Other primaries sit in the surrounding villages. They are worth a look when the nearest one is full.
A school's name on the estate agent's listing isn't a place. Hampshire allocates places by its own admissions rules, and living close to a school improves your odds without guaranteeing anything. Buyers who pay extra for the house nearest the gates and skip the admissions policy sometimes find out in April that the rules were clear all along. Read the policy for the specific school before the survey, not after the offer letter.
Hook's schools are one of its real strengths. The primaries are on the doorstep and the county's graded record is solid. The only catch is the drive to secondary.