Two village primaries and no secondary at all. East Wittering Community Primary School sits on the east side of the village. West Wittering Parochial Church of England School sits at the harbour end. Secondary-age children commute either east along the peninsula to The Academy, Selsey, or north into Chichester. Independent provision is at Westbourne House School, just outside the village.
Catchment for the two village primaries is set by Chichester District Council, not by which postcode you happen to live in. Living inside the village does not guarantee a place at either school. Sibling priority, the faith criteria at the Church of England school, and the straight-line tie-break to the school gate are what actually decide each September. The published admissions criteria for each year override any geographic assumption a buyer brings to the move, and the most expensive house on the wrong side of the road can lose its place to a cheaper one on the right side. Families who don't land one of the two village places fall back on peninsula alternatives. Birdham CE Primary School, Sidlesham Primary School and Medmerry Primary School all sit within reasonable catchment range. Each has its own admissions priority order, its own faith or community filters, and its own morning route.
For the older children, the absence of any secondary inside the village is the defining fact of family life here. Some parents send east along the peninsula to The Academy, Selsey. Others send north into Chichester, where Chichester Free School covers both primary and secondary stages on a single site. Ormiston Six Villages Academy is the further-out alternative. None of these is a walk, none is on a frequent bus, and the closest of them still needs a car. The school run is a car run, in both directions, every weekday of every term, which is the unspoken cost of buying a house on a peninsula with one road out.
Westbourne House School is the independent route, sitting just outside the village. It removes the catchment lottery from the decision and replaces it with a fee structure that does the sorting in a different direction. For families paying for it, the question stops being which state place they got and starts being whether the wider household plan can carry the bill for a decade.
There is no published Ofsted grading carried in the area's school profile here, so what each of these schools is actually delivering will depend on a parent reading the most recent inspection report rather than on anything a postcode-level summary can tell them. Two primaries that exist inside the village, three secondary commutes that are achievable from it, and one independent option that costs what independent options cost. That is the picture, without asterisks.
Average. The primaries exist, the secondaries don't, and the commute is the price of admission to either.