Good, and unusually self-contained for a village this size. There is a primary in the village and a secondary in the village, both carrying its name. Most children here never leave the parish to be educated. The wider county picture is solidly good rather than spectacular. For a place that is mostly fields and a mill, having the whole of a child's schooling inside walking distance is not a small thing.
On grades, Ofsted has inspected 172 settings across Devon and rated 138 of them good or outstanding, which is around four in five. Three sit at outstanding, 31 at requires improvement and three at inadequate. Those counts cover the whole local authority rather than Uffculme itself, so they describe the odds across a large and largely rural county, not a guarantee about any particular gate. A further 135 settings hold no published grade yet, mostly because they have not been inspected under the current arrangement, and reading anything into that would be reading into nothing.
The two schools that matter most for anybody moving here are Uffculme Primary School and Uffculme School, the secondary. Naming them is not the same as being offered a place at them. Admission runs on the county's rules and the school's own criteria, and in a village where one secondary serves a wide rural catchment, a postcode inside the village is an advantage rather than a promise. Anyone buying on the assumption that a house automatically comes with a desk should check the current admissions arrangements with Devon and with the school before they exchange, not after.
Beyond the village boundary, the options are the sort you would expect from mid Devon: a spread of village primaries within a short drive, including Culmstock Primary School, Kentisbeare Church of England Primary School and Willand School, plus Cullompton Community College as the other secondary in reach. Several more church and community primaries sit in the surrounding parishes. None of them is walkable from Uffculme, which puts them firmly in the category of school-run destinations rather than alternatives, and in this part of the county the school run is a car journey by default.
Care settings for younger children follow a similar pattern of small numbers and decent grades. The Care Quality Commission has rated three settings in the area, one outstanding and two good, with none below that.
What this adds up to is one of Uffculme's genuinely strong suits. Primary and secondary in the same village, a county picture that is reliably good, and the only real work left for a buyer is checking the admissions arithmetic rather than hunting for a school worth wanting.