The schools in New Alresford are the sort you can walk your children to and then largely stop worrying about. The town runs its own infant school, its own junior school, and its own secondary. You can educate a child from the first day to the last without ever leaving the town. That is rarer than it sounds for a place of a few thousand people, and it is a good part of what parents are buying when they move here.
At the youngest end, Sun Hill Infant and Preschool covers the early years, feeding into Sun Hill Junior School for the primary stretch. From there the town's secondary is Perins School, which converted to academy status in 2011 and in 2017 formed a multi-academy trust with Sun Hill Junior, so the junior and secondary stages are now formally linked rather than just geographically close. For families in the surrounding villages there are a couple of nearby primaries worth knowing about, Cheriton Primary School and Ropley Church of England Primary School, and for anyone looking outside the state system, Brockwood Park School sits within reach as an independent option.
This page will not put an inspection grade against any of them, and that is deliberate rather than an oversight. A school's current rating is not a thing to state from memory, because grades move and reports get reissued, so the honest version is to tell you the schools exist, where they sit in the ladder, and to point you at the current inspection report for the exact year you care about. What the town can genuinely claim is the completeness of the set, not a single trophy rating hung over the door.
The other thing worth saying plainly is that naming a school here is not the same as being handed a place at it. Living in New Alresford, or even buying the house nearest the gates, does not guarantee your child a spot at any of these schools. Admissions run on published criteria that are reset every year and usually come down to a mix of distance, siblings already at the school, and how many families apply that round. A popular year can push the catchment tighter than the year before. So if a particular school is the reason you are looking at a particular street, treat that as a bet rather than a certainty, and check the actual intake arrangements for the year you plan to apply, not the version a neighbour describes from five years ago.
For a sense of what kind of place produces, the town has form for sending people on to visible careers. Both the model and presenter Alexa Chung and the comedian Russell Howard passed through Perins School, which is a broader range of alumni than most towns this size can point to, and a reasonable hint that the local secondary is not a dead end.
Set against everything else, the schools here land squarely in the middle of the scale. They are a solid, complete, unshowy set: no single standout to point to, nothing you would actively steer clear of, and a full run of infant, junior and secondary inside the town itself. For most families weighing up New Alresford, that completeness is the answer, and it is a decent one.