Fine at primary, and after that you get in the car. Three state primaries serve the area, and their maths results land just above the national expected standard. The secondary options are a drive rather than a walk. Somerset as a whole grades better than it doesn't, though not overwhelmingly. Solid rather than spectacular, which is roughly what everything else round here is too.
Three mainstream state primaries cover the area, and their key stage two maths score averages 102.7, where 100 is the expected standard. That is a modest amount above the line rather than a triumph, and in a sample of three schools a single strong or weak year group moves the number more than any policy does. Abbas and Templecombe Church School sits on School Lane beside the parish church, in a building dating to 1899 with newer extensions stuck on the back. Horsington Church School covers the village to the north, and Saint Nicholas Church of England Primary School at Henstridge covers the one to the south. Between them they do the job a village primary is supposed to do, which is be near enough to walk to.
Across Somerset, Ofsted has graded 140 settings and rated 101 of them good or better, so roughly seven in ten. Five hold outstanding. Thirty-two sit at requires improvement and seven at inadequate, which is a bigger tail than the headline proportion suggests, and it is the reason the county average is close to useless as a guide to any particular school. A further 81 settings hold no published grade at all, either because they have not been inspected under the current framework or because they are not graded that way. Those are unknowns rather than failures.
Secondary is where the geography starts charging you. There is no secondary in the village, and the Department for Transport's modelling puts the drive at around 17 minutes, public transport at about 39 minutes, and walking at roughly 86 minutes, which is not a school run so much as an expedition. The Marchant Holliday School also operates locally as a specialist setting rather than a mainstream option. Primary is a different story: about 7 minutes by car, roughly 14 minutes on foot.
Living near a named school is not the same as getting a place at it. Somerset allocates on its own published rules, oversubscription is decided by criteria rather than by postcode sentiment, and the distance that worked for one family in one year is not a promise for the next. Anyone buying with a specific school in mind should read that year's admissions arrangements before reading the estate agent's description of the catchment, because only one of those two documents is binding.
What you get here is a decent set of village primaries within a short drive of each other and a secondary journey that shapes your mornings for five years. Good enough that schools will not be the reason a family rules Templecombe out, not good enough to be the reason they rule it in.