The schools within reach of Longwell Green land squarely on average, which is either reassuring or dull depending on how much you were hoping to brag at the school gate. Across the hundred-odd schools graded in the wider area, about half are rated good or better. Five are outstanding. Five sit in the requires-improvement bracket, and one carries an inadequate grade. Nobody moves here for the schools, and nobody flees because of them either.
That spread is the whole story, and it is worth reading properly rather than skimming. About half of everything graded nearby is good or above, which means the other half is a coin-flip you would rather not be making with a five-year-old. The five outstanding schools are the ones parents actually chase, and the streets around them behave accordingly, because a top rating two roads away has a way of showing up in the asking price. At the other end, one inadequate result and a cluster of requires-improvement grades are enough to keep the local parenting groups typing without tipping the area into genuine worry. For primary-age children there is Longwell Green Primary School on the doorstep, with a long list of others spread across Hanham, Cadbury Heath and Warmley if that one does not suit. For secondary there are options including Hanham Woods Academy, King's Oak Academy and Sir Bernard Lovell Academy, plus a specialist school at Warmley Park for children who need it.
Before you fall for a house because of a school gate two streets away, the usual warning applies, and it applies harder than most buyers want to believe. A school being near your front door guarantees you precisely nothing. Admissions here run on the council's rules, distance measurements and how many siblings are already through the door, not on which house you liked the look of on a Saturday viewing. The good schools fill up, and the year they fill up faster than expected is the year your carefully chosen address turns out to be one street too far. Measure the walk if you like, but the walk is not the criterion. Check the actual admission rules for the specific school and the specific year before you sign anything, because the catchment you picture and the catchment the council enforces are not always the same shape, and only one of them counts.
The honest verdict is that Longwell Green's schools are fine. Not a reason to buy, not a reason to run, just the ordinary middling spread of a settled suburb where about half the options are safe bets and the rest are homework you actually have to do.