Good, and almost entirely somewhere else. No school carries the village's name over its gate. The primaries that serve it sit in the surrounding parishes, a short drive out. Across the county, about four in five graded schools are rated good or better. The teaching is the easy part here; the logistics are the part nobody warns you about.
Ofsted has published a grade for 172 settings across Devon, the authority this village belongs to, and 138 of those are good or better, which is roughly four in five. Three hold an outstanding grade, 31 require improvement, and 3 are rated inadequate. A further 135 settings carry no published grade at all, which means not yet inspected rather than quietly failing. All of these are county-wide counts covering every setting in Devon rather than the handful within reach of this coast, so they describe the general standard rather than any particular classroom.
A school near your front door is not a school your child attends. Admission is decided by the authority's rules and its own way of measuring distance, year by year, and a good grade belongs to the school rather than to your postcode. Anyone choosing a house on the strength of one specific gate should ring that school about last year's allocations before ringing anybody about a mortgage.
The primaries within reach include West Croft School, St Helen's Church of England School and St Margaret's Church of England Junior School, with Appledore School and Instow Community Primary and Pre-School out towards the estuary. Modelled travel times put a primary about 8 minutes away by car, 13 minutes on foot and 13 by public transport, which for a village with no school of its own is a soft landing. Secondary is the harder shift: Bideford College and Atlantic Academy are the options, at about 13 minutes by car, 35 by public transport and 57 on foot. Kingsley School also appears on the local list. The rest of the choice is a scatter of small village primaries across the surrounding parishes, most of them the size where the head knows every parent by their car.
Schooling is one of the strongest things this address has going for it, with a county record that holds up and more choice within a short drive than a village this size has any right to expect. What it costs you is mileage, mostly at eight in the morning, mostly in the dark half of the year.