Solid, and mostly in Bridgwater. The primary carries the town's name and sits inside walking distance. The secondary options do not, and the school run heads out of town. Results across both stages land in the ordinary middle. Nobody moves here for a school and nobody should avoid it for one either.
At primary level there are 3 mainstream state primaries in the area, and their average key stage two maths score comes out at about 104. That is a fraction above the expected standard, which is a modest, unglamorous result and the sort of thing that never makes a headline. North Petherton Primary School is the one in the town itself, formed when the town's infants and juniors were joined together, and it is the school most families here will actually use. The nearest alternatives sit toward Bridgwater, including Somerset Bridge Primary School and Hamp Academy, both a car journey rather than a walk.
Secondary is where the geography bites. There is 1 mainstream state secondary in the area, and its Attainment 8 score comes out at roughly 43. That is around the national average and a long way from either a scandal or a selling point. In practice the choice runs across Bridgwater's schools, including Chilton Trinity School, Haygrove School and Robert Blake School, with Bridgwater College Academy covering both phases. The Department for Transport's modelled journey times put a secondary about 14 minutes away by car and roughly 25 by public transport, which is the daily arithmetic every family here ends up doing.
On inspections, Ofsted has graded 140 settings across Somerset, of which 101 are good or better. That is a little under three quarters, with 5 rated outstanding, 32 requiring improvement and 7 inadequate. A further 81 settings hold no published grade yet, which means exactly that and nothing more. Those counts cover the whole county rather than this town, so they describe the pool a Somerset family is fishing in, not the specific school at the end of the road. Check the individual school's own report before you let a county-wide number reassure you.
The usual warning applies and it is the one people ignore until March. Naming a school here is not the same as getting into it. Admission is decided by the local authority against published criteria, oversubscription happens, and distance from the gate does a lot of quiet work in that process. Buyers who check the actual admission rules for the actual year get predictability. Buyers who ask the estate agent whether the house is "in catchment" get an answer with no legal weight whatsoever.
Schooling here is decent and unremarkable in the way that most of Somerset is decent and unremarkable. The primary is the genuine local convenience; everything after eleven involves a car, a bus and a bit of planning.