Three primary schools serve the village and no secondary sits inside it, which is the honest shape of things. Hankham Primary School. Pevensey and Westham Church of England Primary School. Stone Cross School. Any teenager in a Pevensey postcode is on a bus, in a car, or on a coastal-line train by 8am on a weekday. That's the entire secondary-education question in one sentence.
The three primaries are what a village of around 10,860 residents can sustain, spread across the parish rather than concentrated in a single village-centre building. Hankham Primary School serves the older-hamlet end. Pevensey and Westham Church of England Primary School covers the historic village and its adjoining Westham parish. Stone Cross School anchors the newer housing estates that grew up on the road towards Eastbourne. Between them they cover the primary-age population for the whole of the parish, and the fact that all three are still running is the answer to whether the village is a working community rather than a coastal retirement zone with a school as an afterthought.
The catchment caveat matters more than the school names. Living in a Pevensey postcode does not automatically get a child into any of the three primaries. East Sussex County Council runs school admissions on a set of published criteria: children in care, siblings already at the school, distance from home to school gate, and any specific denominational criteria for the Church of England school. Anyone counting on a specific school as part of a house purchase needs to check the current admissions arithmetic against the specific address they're looking at, because the boundary that matters is the one drawn by this year's applications, not the one someone drew on a map five years ago. Naming a school in this answer is not the same as guaranteeing a place at it.
Secondary education is the harder question and the reason families with older children think twice. There is no secondary school inside Pevensey, so the eleven-plus year is the point at which every family here starts commuting somebody. The realistic options sit in the wider area and involve either the coastal line trains from Pevensey and Westham station or Pevensey Bay station, or a car journey towards Eastbourne, Hailsham, or the Bexhill and Battle side of the parliamentary constituency. Each of those directions has its own set of secondary schools with their own admissions criteria, catchment areas, and travel times. None of them are named in the brief for this page because none of them sit in the village. Anyone buying here for secondary schooling needs to have that conversation with East Sussex admissions before they sign a contract, not after.
Post-sixteen education, further education, and sixth-form provision follow the same pattern as secondary. Whatever is available sits outside the parish, reached by bus, train, or car. The village is not the destination for that stage of life and does not pretend to be.
The overall verdict is average for a small coastal village, with three functional primary schools and no secondary of its own, on a rating consistent with what the data supports and does not support. If schools are a make-or-break question for your house purchase, do the admissions arithmetic on your specific address for your specific stage before you make the decision. If they aren't, the village will look after the primary years and pass the secondary problem on to a bus timetable.