Ascot's schools are good, and the primaries are the best of them. The local state primaries post strong maths results. Most of the schools inspectors have graded across the borough are good or better. The area has a single state secondary. The good schools are the easy part of living in Ascot. A house near one is the hard part.
The six mainstream state primaries in the area averaged a Key Stage 2 maths score of 106. Ascot Heath Primary School and South Ascot Village Primary School carry the town's name. St Francis Catholic Primary School is in South Ascot as well. On the Department for Transport's 2019 modelled times, the nearest primary is about a 14-minute walk or an 8-minute drive.
The area has one mainstream state secondary, and its pupils averaged an Attainment 8 score of 51. Charters School is the secondary on the local list. With one school behind the figure, the secondary picture depends almost entirely on how one place has done. On the same 2019 modelled times, a secondary school is about 12 minutes away by car, 26 by public transport and 38 on foot. That is the age when Ascot's teenagers learn the bus timetable.
There are another eight schools on the local list, including St Mary's School Ascot, and none of them is counted in the state results above. A buyer weighing those names needs to look at them one by one, because neither score describes them.
Across Windsor and Maidenhead as a whole, Ofsted has graded 25 settings, and 21 of them are good or outstanding, which is the large majority. Two are outstanding, three require improvement and one is inadequate. Another 32 have no published grade yet. Those counts cover the whole borough, so some of the outstanding schools may be a long drive from Sunninghill.
The council gives out school places under its published admissions rules, and living near a school doesn't guarantee your child a place there. A house round the corner from Ascot Heath Primary School puts you nearby and nothing more. Before you offer on a house, read the council's admissions rules for any school you're counting on. The particulars can mention a school as often as they like, and none of it counts on the application form.
Schools are one of Ascot's real strengths. The primaries are strong, and the secondary picture is thin because the area has only one state secondary.