Decent, provided your child doesn't mind a bus at eleven. About seven in ten graded schools are good or better. None has been rated inadequate. The village primary is a short walk from most doors. Secondary school means leaving the village.
Ofsted has published an overall grade for 23 schools in the Isle of Wight authority figures that cover Wootton, and 16 of them are rated good or better. That's about seven in ten. One is outstanding, 7 require improvement and none is inadequate. These counts cover the whole local authority, not Wootton alone, so they describe the system your child goes into rather than the building at the end of the road. Another 16 settings have no published grade yet. They aren't counted, and no grade means just that, not a poor one.
Admission doesn't depend on proximity alone. The Isle of Wight council runs admissions, and a school's name or a short walk doesn't guarantee a place. Check the council's current oversubscription criteria for the specific school before a house purchase starts depending on it. Plenty of buyers pay for the walk to the school gate and then find that the allocation rules measure something else.
Wootton Community Primary School is the one carrying the village name. The Department for Transport's 2019 modelling puts the nearest primary school about an 11-minute walk from the typical home, 10 minutes by public transport or 8 by car. Binstead Primary School is the nearest alternative among the neighbouring primaries, with more further out towards Ryde, including Oakfield Church of England Aided Primary School and St Mary's Catholic Primary School.
Secondary is a longer trip. Lift Ryde is the named secondary school for this side of the island, and the same modelling puts the nearest secondary 22 minutes away by public transport, 13 by car and 47 on foot. Ryde School with Upper Chine is also on the local list for families looking beyond the state sector. For most families in Wootton, the morning school run for teenagers is a bus, not a walk.
The schools here are better than average: primaries are close and the authority's grades lean good. Once children reach secondary age, the daily journey out of the village becomes part of the deal.