Good, and the village primary is the reason most young families end up here at all. Two mainstream state primaries serve the area. Maths results sit a little above the national benchmark. Across Wiltshire, roughly eight in ten graded settings are good or better. The catch is not quality, it is distance, and that arrives the year your child turns eleven.
At primary level, the two mainstream state primaries in the area posted an average key stage two maths score of about 103, where 100 is the national scaled benchmark. Saint John's Church of England Primary School in Tisbury is the one carrying the village name and doing most of the work. Wardour Catholic Primary School sits nearby, and Chilmark and Fonthill Bishop Church of England Aided Primary School and Hindon Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School cover the surrounding villages. They are small, church-linked and rural, which is the entire template around here.
The Ofsted picture is a Wiltshire-wide one rather than a Tisbury one, so read it as the county a child is being educated in. Ofsted has graded 128 settings across the authority. Of those, 106 are good or better, which is a little over eight in ten. Six carry an outstanding grade, 20 require improvement, and two are inadequate. A further 73 settings hold no published grade at all, either because they have not been inspected yet or because their inspection outcome is not graded in this form, and none of that should be read as a verdict either way. Independent provision exists too, including Appleford School, which sits outside the state picture entirely.
Being able to see a school from the end of the road is not the same as getting into it. Wiltshire allocates places, and church-linked schools apply their own admission criteria on top of distance. A house purchase does not buy a place, and the small rural primaries here are exactly the sort that fill from within their own parishes in some years and not others. Anyone buying on the strength of a particular school should check that school's current admission arrangements and its most recent allocation round before exchanging, not after.
Secondary is where the geography stops being charming. There is no secondary school in the village itself, and the Department for Transport's modelled journey times put the nearest one at around 26 minutes by car and about 45 by public transport. The public transport figure is modelled from 2019 services, and rural bus provision has not generally improved since. In practice, secondary here means a daily drive or a bus arrangement that governs the whole household's morning, for seven years, in weather that makes the Nadder valley look like a decision somebody else made.
The primary picture is genuinely one of Tisbury's strongest features: small church schools, results a shade above the national benchmark, and a county where most graded settings are good or better. Just buy with the eleven-year-old in mind as well as the five-year-old, because the second half of the arrangement happens in a car.