Good, and refreshingly uncomplicated. The village still has its own primary, which is more than a lot of places this size can say. Results sit steady rather than spectacular, and nothing about them needs defending. Nearly every graded school across the wider council area comes out good or better. The one thing that takes organising is secondary, because that involves getting out of the village.
Peasedown St John Primary School is in the village, built in 1913 and extended considerably since, and it was rated good at its 2023 inspection. Across the three state primaries in the area, key stage 2 maths averages about 105. The nearest primary is roughly an 11-minute walk or an 8-minute drive, which in practice means the school run is a coat and a pair of shoes rather than a logistics operation. Parents who want a smaller village setting look at places like Shoscombe Church School or Farmborough Church Primary School, both a short drive out and both operating at the scale where the head knows every child's name and most of their excuses.
Secondary is where the geography starts charging you. There is one mainstream state secondary in the area, with an Attainment 8 score of about 47. The nearest secondary school is roughly 13 minutes by car, 26 minutes on public transport, or a 50-minute walk that nobody is doing twice. Bath widens the field considerably, with Beechen Cliff School, Ralph Allen School and Hayesfield Girls School among the options, though each of those adds journey time and none of them is a given. Three Ways School covers special educational needs across the district.
The Ofsted picture for Bath and North East Somerset as a whole is strong. Of the 41 settings carrying a published overall grade, 39 are good or better, which is very nearly all of them, and four are rated outstanding. One sits at requires improvement and one at inadequate. A further 28 settings have no published grade at all, which means not yet inspected rather than quietly failing, and treating an absent grade as a bad one is how parents talk themselves out of perfectly decent schools.
Worth saying plainly: naming a school is not the same as getting into it. Admissions run on the council's own criteria, and distance from the gate does a lot of the deciding when a school is oversubscribed. Living in Peasedown St John puts you close to the village primary and a manageable trip from the nearest secondary, but no page, brochure or estate agent can promise a place at either. Check the current admissions arrangements for the specific year of entry, because they change and the version someone repeats to you at the school gate is usually the version from three years ago.
For families, this is one of the strongest things the village has going. A primary at walking distance, respectable results, and a council area where good is the standard rather than the exception, with the only real cost being a secondary school run that happens by road.