Good, and closer than you would expect for a village this far inland. Roche has a primary school of its own. The secondary is a drive rather than a walk. Across the wider county, roughly four in five graded schools come back good or better. This is not a place where parents have to plot escape routes.
Ofsted has published an overall grade for 120 settings across Cornwall, the authority these schools belong to, and 95 of them are good or better. Three hold an outstanding grade, 20 require improvement and 5 are rated inadequate. Another 113 settings carry no published grade at all, and those are not bad schools, they are simply schools without a current published judgement, so they belong outside the headline rather than folded into it. The honest caveat is scale: that count covers every corner of Cornwall, from the clay parishes to the harbours, and not the handful of schools within reach of a Roche front door.
Naming a school is not the same as being offered a place in it. Admissions run on the authority's published criteria, and living near the gates is a strong hand rather than a guaranteed one. Anyone buying on the strength of a particular school should read that school's own admissions arrangements for the year they will apply in, not the year they are viewing in. The house does not come with the classroom attached.
Roche Community Primary School is the one carrying the village name, which is the school most local children start at. Brannel School is the secondary serving this part of the county, and it is the only secondary in the immediate picture, so the choice at eleven is less a choice than a fact. Bugle School sits in the next village along, and Whitemoor Academy is another of the small primaries dotted through the surrounding parishes, most of which are the same shape: village-sized, one form of entry, everybody knows whose child is whose. The outlier in the county list is Sky Primary and Eden Project Nursery, which has the most confident name in Cornish education and is a reminder that the authority does contain some genuinely unusual schools alongside the ordinary ones.
On travel, the Department for Transport's modelled journey times put a primary school about a 7 minute walk from here, and the nearest secondary about a 20 minute drive or about 40 minutes on public transport. Those figures were modelled in 2019, and the driving time has aged considerably better than the bus one, so treat the public transport number as the optimistic version of a rural school run.
Schools are one of the strongest things Roche has going for it: a primary in the village, a secondary inside a sensible drive, and a county where good or better is the standard rather than the ambition. Nobody moves here for the schools, which is a bit of a waste, because they are among the better arguments for the place.