The schools are the easy part of buying in Hythe. Nine in ten graded schools across Kent are good or better. There are six primaries in and around the town. There's one secondary for everyone to share. Getting the place is harder than finding a good one.
Ofsted has graded 245 schools across Kent, the local authority Hythe sits in, and 221 of them are rated good or outstanding, which is about nine in every ten. Those numbers cover the whole county, not just Hythe. Within them, 38 schools are rated outstanding, 21 require improvement and 3 are inadequate. Another 255 settings hold no published grade yet and aren't counted either way. The county average does a lot for a town this size, and it's worth checking the individual inspection report for any school on your shortlist rather than relying on Kent's overall record.
On the Department for Transport's 2019 modelling, the nearest primary school is about a ten-minute walk on average, or about eight minutes by car. The nearest secondary is a different matter: about 36 minutes on foot, 24 by public transport and 11 by car. Primary is a walk. Secondary is a lift, a bus or a long march in the rain.
The primary that shares the town's name is Hythe Bay CofE Primary School, and Saltwood CofE Primary School and Palmarsh Primary School serve the edges. Out towards the old cliff line, Lympne Church of England Primary School covers the village side of the page. Seabrook and St Augustine's Catholic Primary complete the choice of six. For secondary, the named option is Brockhill Park Performing Arts College. Buyers who grew up with a choice of three secondaries within walking distance will need to adjust.
Buying near a school doesn't get your child into it. Kent County Council allocates places using each school's published admissions criteria, and those criteria change nothing about whether a sale has gone through. Parents who pick a house by where they can see the school gates, then skip reading the admissions policy, find out in spring that being nearby and being offered a place are two different things. Read the criteria and the latest allocation outcomes for the specific school before you book a viewing, not after you've exchanged.
For a family moving to Hythe, the schools are one of its real strengths: a well-graded county, a primary close to almost everyone, and the only real homework for parents is getting through the admissions process.