My DC is going to start at Chase in the autumn. It has always been our intention - it's gone up and down a bit in recent years, but people are so happy with the current head (who was deputy for years) and it all seems to be working out well. Dyson's is losing its sixth form, and of course Chantry doesn't have one, if these are considerations. About half of DC's Y6 year group are going to each of Chase and Dyson's and a few others elsewhere (the Worcester indies and Hanley).
We are not on the hill - currently hill-adjacent! But high up, so I get views. Obvs, West Malvern is lovely, and I would like to live there, but I like where I am too, and it is that little bit more convenient for running out of milk, and the DC being able to walk to places in town and the train station when a bit older. We'll be moving soon, hopefully, but will probably stay around this bit. I have lived on the flat bits too, and it's fine down there. I actually like the Barnard's Green area; the roads around Gt Malvern station have lovely properties, but it doesn't feel as on 'edge of rural' as other parts of town (good commons close by though).
I will DM you if you like about primaries (only an authority on DS' school, though!), but I don't really want to post it here.
I rather like Pershore. I drive through a couple of times a week, and always think it would be nice having such a lovely high street. I swam there a lot pre-Covid, as their pool is nice and quiet. We did think about it when relocating up here, but a mix of things made us go for Malvern. But I would have happily lived in either place. Ledbury too.