Good, and boringly so. Almost every graded school across the wider authority is rated good or better. The primaries around here test above the expected standard. Secondary means a drive rather than a walk. The schooling here is not the thing you agonise over, it is the thing you tick off before moving on to the harder questions about broadband and buses.
At primary level, there are two mainstream state primaries in the area, and their average maths score at the end of key stage two is 103.1, which sits above the expected standard of 100. The village and the lanes around it are served by small church primaries, the kind where the intake is measured in dozens rather than hundreds: Marksbury Church of England Primary School and Farmborough Church Primary School are the closest of that type, with Peasedown St John Primary School a slightly larger option to the south and Shoscombe Church School further out again. The Department for Transport's modelling puts a primary at roughly nine minutes on foot or about seven by car, which is the one part of the school run here that behaves like a village should.
The Ofsted picture across Bath and North East Somerset is strong. Of 41 settings with a published overall effectiveness grade, 39 are good or better, which is somewhere north of nine in ten. Four of those hold the top grade of outstanding. One requires improvement and one is inadequate, so the authority is not flawless, but the odds of landing in a school with a poor grade are slim. A further 28 settings in the authority hold no published grade at all, either because they are not yet inspected or because the inspection framework does not grade them. Those are neither good nor bad on paper, and reading them as a hidden problem would be wrong.
Those counts cover the whole authority, which stretches from this village up into Bath itself, so they describe the pool a family here draws from rather than the two primaries on the doorstep.
Secondary is where the geography asserts itself. The modelled journey to a secondary school runs about 16 minutes by car against roughly 84 minutes on foot, and nobody is doing the second one twice a day in February. The options sit in the Bath direction: Ralph Allen School, Beechen Cliff School, Hayesfield Girls School and Saint Gregory's Catholic College. Bath also carries a heavy independent sector, with Prior Park College, King Edward's School and Monkton Combe School among the names, which is a fact about the city rather than a recommendation about your budget.
One thing worth saying plainly: naming a school is not the same as getting into it. Admissions in this authority are run by the council and the individual schools, oversubscription criteria vary by school, and living in a particular village guarantees nothing. Church schools apply their own faith and distance criteria. The popular Bath secondaries draw from a wide area and are competitive on distance. Before you commit to an address on the strength of a school, check that school's own published admissions arrangements and its most recent allocation distances, because those are the numbers that decide it, not a postcode on a listing.
The schools are the part of Timsbury that needs no defending. Strong grades across the authority, primaries testing above standard, and the only real cost is the mileage to secondary.