The schools around Lindford are good, and that's by the county's own inspection record, not the school-gate gossip. Nearly nine in ten graded schools in the county are good or better. The nearest primary is a short walk away. The nearest secondary is under half an hour on foot. Parents here have fewer excuses than most for the morning school run.
Ofsted has graded 211 settings across Hampshire, and 185 of them are rated good or outstanding, which is nearly nine in ten. Of those, 27 are outstanding. At the other end, 16 require improvement and 10 are inadequate. These are county-wide counts, not Lindford's own, so they describe the education authority your child's school sits in, not the school itself. Another 226 settings have no published overall grade yet. That means they haven't been graded, not that they're bad, and they aren't counted either way.
A good school nearby isn't a place at that school. Hampshire allocates places under its admissions rules, and living close to a school improves your chances without guaranteeing anything. Every spring some families find out the difference between "near the school" and "in the school". Anyone buying for a particular school should check that school's own admissions criteria and last year's allocations before exchanging, not after the offer letter arrives.
Most of the nearby school names belong to Bordon. Bordon Infant School and Bordon Junior School cover the early years between them. Weyford Nursery and Primary Academy and Woodlea Primary School are the other mainstream primaries listed close by. Oakmoor School is the nearest secondary named locally. Hollywater School and The Green Room School Kingsley are listed separately from the mainstream schools, and families who need that kind of provision should ask each one directly what they offer. None of these grades is given here, so check each school's current Ofsted report yourself rather than trusting a listing that says "excellent local schools".
Distances are the easy part. The Department for Transport's 2019 modelling puts the nearest primary about 15 minutes' walk or 8 minutes' drive away on average. The nearest secondary is about 28 minutes on foot, 21 minutes by public transport or 10 minutes by car. The public transport times are the ones most likely to have aged since that modelling, since bus services get cut more easily than footpaths.
Schooling is one of Lindford's real strengths. The county's record is strong and the primaries are close, so the admissions rules are the main thing to worry about.