The schools in Hythe are a question this record politely declines to rank. The town and the villages around it carry a full set of primaries, a small handful of secondaries, and a run of specialist schools, so provision is not the problem. What is missing is a verdict: not one of them arrives here with an inspection grade attached. That leaves an honest answer rather than a flattering one. There are plenty of schools within reach, and this page will not pretend to know which is the good one.
The usual warning applies harder than most people expect. A school being close to your front door guarantees you nothing. Places go on published admission criteria and distance, not on which house you liked, and the family in the next street with a sibling already enrolled will beat you to it. Buy the house because you want the house. Treat the school as a separate application you still have to win, and read each school's own admissions rules before you assume anything.
On the ground, the primary options run from Hythe Primary School and Waterside Primary School through the paired Orchard Infant and Orchard Junior Schools and the paired Wildground Infant and Wildground Junior Schools, with Cadland Primary, Fawley Infant, Manor Church of England Infant and Blackfield Primary and Nursery covering the villages down the shore. For older children the mainstream choices are Applemore College and Noadswood School, with Lift New Forest in the mix. Specialist and additional provision comes through New Forest School, Oak Lodge School, Greenwood School, Dibden Park School and Bower Lodge School. That is a lot of names for a small town, which is what happens when a place grows to house a workforce and has to educate their children somewhere.
The verdict is the same as the score: average, and average here means unproven rather than poor. The schools exist in good number, the inspection grades that would sort them are not in front of you, so the work of finding the right one is yours to do in person rather than mine to do on a page.