Schools in Littlehampton are a workmanlike set of local options. One secondary academy in the town. Another in Angmering. About a dozen primary schools spread across the area. Nothing here is going to be the reason you move in, and nothing here is going to be the reason you move back out.
The primaries are the meat of the offer. Inside the town itself sit River Beach Primary School, White Meadows Primary Academy, Georgian Gardens Community Primary School, St Catherine's Catholic Primary School, and Lyminster Primary School, which was expanded from an infant school to a full primary as part of a 2011 reorganisation that consolidated six older junior and infant schools into four. Which is why some primaries here go by newer names than long-time locals remember. Around them, in the surrounding villages that this page also covers, sit East Preston Infant School, East Preston Junior School, Rustington Community Primary School, St Margaret's Church of England Primary School, St Mary's Church of England Primary School, St Wilfrids Catholic Primary School, and Summerlea Community Primary School. That is a real spread of choice by any suburban standard, and it gives buyers the room to shortlist by catchment, faith affiliation, or walking distance depending on which matters most.
On the secondary side, the town's own is The Littlehampton Academy, which opened in 2009 to replace the older community school. The Angmering School sits on the eastern side and pulls from the villages in that direction. Cornfield School covers specialist provision for pupils whose needs the mainstream cannot meet. Three secondary-age options across the wider area, which is more choice than most towns of this size get, though the honest expectation for Littlehampton-side families is that the Academy is where the shortlist starts and mostly ends.
None of that guarantees admission. Being near a school is not the same as being inside its catchment, and both are subject to annual intake pressures that shift the boundaries in ways no estate agent's brochure map can promise. The safer assumption is that your nearest school may not be the one that takes your child, and the safer assumption still is that the council's current admission policy is the only document worth basing a house purchase on. Faith-designated primaries also apply their own criteria on top of distance, which knock ordinary walking-distance expectations sideways for buyers who forgot to check. Anyone shortlisting a property on the strength of a specific school and a rough drive-past finds out in the March offer letters that geography and destiny are not the same word.
On the schools then, Littlehampton is neither the reason to move in nor the reason to move away. A working set of local options that does what it says on the sign, in a spread wide enough to give most parents a real choice. Which is what most parents, in practice, actually settle for.