Small, rural, and spread across the villages rather than stacked in one town. Stockbridge and the surrounding area are served by a handful of primary schools and a secondary, which is about what you would expect from a place this size and this scattered. The picture here is one of choice by geography rather than by league table. No inspection grades sit in front of us for these schools, so anyone promising you an outstanding or writing one off as failing is working from memory or marketing, not from anything solid. The sensible move is to go and look, not to take a stranger's word for it.
That matters because a school near your front door is not a school you are guaranteed a place at. Admissions here run on catchment rules and distance measurements that change with demand year to year, and living within sight of the gates counts for nothing if the year group is already full. Buyers who assume the closest school is theirs sometimes find the offer letter says otherwise, and by then the house is already bought. Check the actual admissions arrangements for the specific year you need before you let a school shape which street you choose.
For primary-age children, the local options include Stockbridge Primary and Pre-School in the town itself, King's Somborne Church of England Primary School in the village to the south, Broughton Primary School out to the west, and Wallop Primary School toward the north. That is a genuine spread of village schools rather than one big central option, which suits a place where the population is strung out along the river valley and the lanes. It also means the school run can be a proper drive depending on which village you land in, so factor the miles as well as the merits. At secondary level, the area is served by Danebury School, which is the name to look into for older children.
None of that comes with a rating attached in what is available here, and inventing one would do you no favours. What the setting can tell you is thin: there are schools, they are local, and they are the sort of small rural establishments that live or die on the specific head teacher, the specific year, and the specific fit for your child. Those are things a spreadsheet cannot capture and a single visit usually can. Talk to parents already there, sit in on an open morning, and read the most recent inspection report yourself rather than trusting a summary.
The honest verdict is that the schools here land squarely in the middle, neither a selling point nor a warning sign on the evidence to hand. Treat them as average until a visit and a current report tell you otherwise, and let the house decision follow the school decision rather than the other way round.