Fine at primary, and then they get further away. Tatworth has a primary school carrying the village's own name. Walking a small child there takes about a quarter of an hour. Walking a teenager to the nearest secondary would take most of an hour, which is why nobody does it. The quality question here is easier to answer than the geography one.
Ofsted has published overall grades for 140 settings across Somerset, the local authority Tatworth sits in, and 101 of them come out good or better. That is roughly seven in ten. Five are rated outstanding, 32 require improvement and seven are inadequate. Those counts cover the whole county rather than the few schools within reach of the village, so they describe the general odds and not the specific offer letter. A further 81 settings hold no published overall grade at all, which means not yet graded under current arrangements rather than judged and found wanting, and folding them into the totals would be a way of making the picture look worse than it is.
None of that guarantees a place anywhere. Living in a village with a school in it is not an admissions criterion, and the county allocates places by its own published rules in the year you apply. Check the current arrangements with Somerset rather than assuming the nearest gate is your gate, because the assumption is free right up until March.
The village school is Tatworth Primary School. For families who want an alternative within a short drive, the register also lists Winsham Primary School, Combe St Nicholas Church of England Primary School and Thorncombe St Mary's Church of England Primary Academy, along with several more towards Chard. Secondary means Holyrood Academy, which is the nearest of its kind. Chard School and 3 Dimensions appear on the register as other local settings. Department for Transport modelling from 2019 puts a primary school at about 7 minutes by car, 13 minutes on foot and 11 by public transport, and a secondary at 14 minutes by car, 31 by public transport and 55 on foot. The public transport figures are the ones to treat carefully, because rural bus provision has moved since that modelling was done and it has not generally moved in the direction of more buses.
What that means in practice is that the primary years are genuinely local and the secondary years are a logistics exercise. Eleven is the age at which the household discovers whether it needs a second car or a very reliable friend. Families who move here for the garden and the quiet tend to work this out in the abstract and then experience it properly on the first wet Tuesday in November.
The honest read is that the schools are a modest point in Tatworth's favour rather than the reason to come. Most of what is on offer is graded good, the outstanding schools are scarce and mostly not next door, and the biggest variable is not quality but how far you are prepared to drive twice a day for the next seven years.