The schools in Romsey are a full set rather than a famous one. The town runs two secondaries, The Mountbatten School and The Romsey School, backed by a spread of primaries and a couple of independents for parents who would rather pay than gamble. There are no headline grades to wave about here, in either direction, which is its own kind of information. This is a town that educates its children steadily and quietly, the way it does most things. If you came looking for a school to build a house move around, you will find competence rather than a trophy.
For primary, families are served by names like Cupernham Infant School and Cupernham Junior School, Halterworth Primary School, Romsey Abbey Church of England Primary School and Romsey Primary School and Nursery in and around the town, with village schools such as Awbridge Primary School, Braishfield Primary School, Lockerley Church of England Endowed Primary School and Wellow Primary School covering the surrounding parishes. At the top end sit the independents, with Embley, King Edward VI Preparatory School and St Edward's School giving the fee-paying route its options. It is a decent geographic net, and most children in Romsey will have a school within a sensible distance of the front door.
None of that is a promise of a place, which is the part estate agents tend to skate over. Living near a good school and getting your child into it are two different transactions, and the second one is decided by admissions rules and the shape of the year you happen to apply in, not by how close your postcode looks on the map. Popular schools fill, catchments flex year to year, and the only safe assumption is that nothing is guaranteed until the offer letter lands in the spring. If a specific school matters to you, check its current admissions arrangements directly rather than trusting the house particulars.
The honest verdict is that Romsey's schools are a solid, unremarkable middle: enough of them, well spread, and short on the kind of standout reputation that moves prices on its own. For most families that is perfectly fine, and for the ones chasing a name, the fee-paying options are the town's answer.