Liphook's schools are good, and the grades behind that answer belong to the whole of Hampshire. Nearly nine in ten graded schools in the county are good or better. The village has its own infant and junior schools. A secondary school is about twenty minutes' walk away. School choice is the least of the worries for a family moving here. The bigger ones are elsewhere.
Ofsted has given a published overall grade to 211 schools and settings in Hampshire, and 185 of them are good or better. Nearly nine in ten is a strong record for a county this size. Of those, 27 are outstanding. Another 16 are rated requires improvement and 10 inadequate, so the county isn't flawless, but most of the grades are good. These counts cover the whole local authority, not only Liphook. A further 226 settings in the county hold no published grade yet. That says nothing about how good they are, only that there's no grade to count.
A school's name on the property listing doesn't get your child a place. Admission follows the council's rules, not the estate agent's description, and it's parents who read the listing rather than the admissions policy who get caught out. Before offering on a house, check how the school you want allocates places and how far away the last successful applicant lived in recent years.
For the early years, the village has its own pair. Liphook Infant School and Liphook Church of England Controlled Junior School split primary education between them, so children move from one to the other part-way through. Hollycombe Primary School is the other named primary nearby, for families who'd rather a child stay in one school throughout. At secondary age the name that matters is Bohunt School. Among its former pupils are the Paralympian Olivia Breen and the cricketer Michael Barnes, which can give parents the idea the school turns out champions. It turns out ordinary teenagers too. Highfield and Brookham School is the independent option for families paying fees.
The distances are manageable. The Department for Transport's modelled journey times from 2019 put the nearest primary about 20 minutes' walk away on average, and the nearest secondary about the same. By car, both are about nine minutes away. In a village where most families drive, the morning drop-off queue outside the school gate will look familiar.
Schools are one of Liphook's real strengths. Hampshire's grades are strong, the named schools are close, and the only hard part is getting a place at the one you want.