Schools in Peacehaven are ordinary, which around here is more of a recommendation than the word usually implies. The primary picture in the area posts a Key Stage Two maths average of about 108. The one mainstream state secondary posts a Key Stage Four Attainment Eight score of around 40. No school in the area currently has an active inspection grade recorded in the data used here. Ordinary is what state schooling tends to look like when nobody has recently run a scandal or a spike about it.
On the primary side, about three mainstream state schools in the area publish Key Stage Two results, and the average maths score sits at around 108. That is above the national expected standard, which places the picture in the respectable band without moving it into remarkable territory. The named primaries in and around Peacehaven include Meridian Community Primary School and Nursery and Telscombe Cliffs Academy, both within the town itself, along with Peacehaven Heights Academy, Breakwater Academy, Harbour Primary and Nursery School, Denton Community Primary School and Nursery, and High Cliff Academy across the wider area around Newhaven and Telscombe Cliffs. Journey times to the nearest primary come in at around 12 minutes on foot, 8 minutes by car, and 10 by public transport, which means most of the town is a short walk from a school gate.
Secondary is a slimmer picture. Only one mainstream state secondary in the area publishes a Key Stage Four Attainment Eight score, and it comes in at around 40. Peacehaven Community School is the town's own secondary, with Seahaven Academy in the wider seafront area. Journey times to a secondary come in at around 15 minutes on foot, 9 by car, and 14 by public transport, which tells you that a family with a teenager can avoid the school run by letting them walk.
Two caveats need naming. First, being close to a school does not guarantee your child gets a place there. Admissions rules and catchment lines are set by the local authority and can change, and being on the right road does not do the work by itself. Second, none of the schools in the area currently carries a live Ofsted grade in the data used here, so the grade-based verdict that most parents want is not one this page can honestly give. That has to come from the school's own materials and a visit. Three schools in the wider vicinity have closed in recent years, which means older lists you may find online could point you at options that no longer exist.
The schools here score three out of five overall. That is what an average English school situation looks like: performance numbers just above the middle, no live inspection grades to reinforce or contradict them, and nothing dramatic in either direction.