Good, and mostly a short drive away. The one that carried the village's own name has closed, so nobody here has a school at the end of the lane. Six state primaries cover the area, and their maths results come in above the expected standard. Secondary means the car or the bus, every day, both ways. The schooling is a genuine strength here, provided you are relaxed about being the transport.
At primary level, the six mainstream state primaries around here average a key stage two maths scaled score of about 105, which sits above the expected standard rather than merely reaching it. Morgan's Vale and Woodfalls Church of England Primary School is the closest thing to a village school for the parish, and Whiteparish All Saints Church of England Primary School and Hale Primary School serve the surrounding villages. Department for Transport modelling, which dates from 2019 and holds up better for distances than for bus timetables, puts a primary school around 7 minutes away by car and about 11 minutes on foot. That walking figure is the friendliest number on this page, and it only applies if you happen to live at the right end of the parish.
Ofsted has published overall grades for 128 settings across Wiltshire, and 106 of them are good or better, which is roughly five in every six. Six carry the top grade of outstanding, 20 require improvement, and two are rated inadequate. A further 73 settings across the authority hold no published grade at all, which means they have not been inspected under the current arrangements rather than that anything is wrong with them. These counts describe the whole of Wiltshire rather than this corner of it, so read them as the odds you are playing rather than the hand you have been dealt.
That distinction matters more here than it would in a town, because naming a school is not the same as getting into it. Admissions are run on the local authority's published arrangements, and living near a school with a good grade guarantees precisely nothing except the postcode on the application form. Places at the popular ones go the way places at popular schools always go. Check the current arrangements for the specific school before you decide a house purchase on the strength of a reputation, because the reputation is not the thing that allocates the place.
Secondary is where the geography bites. The Trafalgar School at Downton and The Burgate School and Sixth Form are the realistic options, at roughly 13 minutes by car and around 24 by public transport. Walking is modelled at about 51 minutes, a figure that exists to be looked at rather than acted on. The practical consequence is a school run with a fixed shape: two journeys a day for the better part of a decade, and no version of the plan where a teenager sorts it out themselves on a bus that runs when they need it.
For anyone considering fees, Sandroyd School and Forres Sandle Manor School are the independents in reach, which tells you something about what the wider area expects of itself. The rest of the state provision around here is a scatter of small church primaries across the neighbouring villages, several of them the size where every child's name is known by the whole staff room, feeding into the same two secondaries.
Schooling is one of the best things Redlynch has going for it. The grades hold up, the primary results are ahead of where they need to be, and the only real cost is the mileage.