Solid, mostly, and the real question is not quality but distance. Roughly seven in ten graded settings across the wider county are good or better. Five carry the top grade. The nearest secondary is a drive, not a walk. The schools are not the problem here. The school run is.
Ofsted has graded 140 settings across Somerset, the local authority Watchet sits in, and 101 of those are rated good or outstanding. Five hold an outstanding grade. Thirty-two require improvement and seven are rated inadequate, so the county is not uniformly comfortable reading. A further 81 settings hold no published grade at all, which means not yet inspected rather than quietly failing, and folding them into the count would be dishonest arithmetic. These are county-wide numbers covering everything from village first schools to sixth forms, not a scorecard for Watchet itself.
Worth saying plainly before anyone builds a purchase around it: living near a school is not the same as getting into it. Admissions here are handled by the local authority and the schools' own admissions authorities, the rules change between year groups, and an address that worked for one family in one year is not a guarantee for the next. Check the specific address against the current admissions arrangements before you make an offer, not after.
In the town itself, the Knights Templar Community Church School and Nursery on Liddymore Road is the main primary, a joint Church of England and Methodist school built in 1990 and named after the medieval landowners rather than any particular ambition to raise crusaders. Out toward the villages, Old Cleeve Church of England First School covers the settlements around Blue Anchor and Washford. Secondary education is elsewhere: the middle and upper schools serving the area sit in Williton and Minehead, which is a fact that shapes family life here more than any inspection grade does.
The Department for Transport's modelled journey times put a primary school at about 9 minutes by car from the average address in the area, roughly 26 minutes on foot, and around 22 minutes by public transport. A secondary is about 25 minutes by car, around 55 minutes by public transport, and just under two hours walking, which is a number nobody should treat as a plan. Those journey figures were modelled in 2019, and the public transport ones in particular have aged less well than the car times as rural services have thinned. If you have a teenager and one car, the secondary journey is the thing to test on a wet Tuesday morning before committing.
Everything else in reach falls into the same broad pattern as the county as a whole: a healthy majority rated good, a visible minority that is not, and no way to know which category applies to your child's likely school without checking that specific school's most recent report.
The schools here are a reasonable bet rather than a selling point. Good odds on quality, a long commute on geography, and the second of those is the one that will define your weekday mornings.