Aylesford's schools are good, and the county around them is better than most parents assume. Nine in ten graded schools in Kent are rated good or better. There's a secondary with the village's name over the door. Primaries sit in Ditton and Eccles as well as Aylesford itself. The worry here is admissions, not quality.
Ofsted has graded 245 schools and other settings across Kent, and 221 of them are rated good or better, which is about nine in every ten. Of those, 38 are outstanding. At the other end, 21 require improvement and 3 are inadequate. These counts cover the whole of Kent, not Aylesford's own schools, so they tell you what the county looks like rather than which classroom your child will end up in. Another 255 settings have no published grade yet. That means they haven't been graded, not that they're poor, and they aren't counted in the figures above.
The school on your estate agent's list is not a school place. A school near your house is not an offer of a place, and the county's admissions rules don't care which way your kitchen window faces. Buyers who assume the nearest school comes with the keys sometimes find out otherwise in spring, when the offer letters arrive. Check the admission arrangements for any school you're counting on, for the year your child would start, before you exchange contracts, not after.
A few names say something about the area. Aylesford School is the secondary that carries the village's name, and it's where many local families look first. Valley Invicta Primary School At Aylesford serves the younger end. St Peter's Church of England Primary School and St Mark's Church of England Primary School, Eccles, cover the church-school route, which has its own admissions rules that are worth reading before you rely on one. Ditton has its own infant and junior schools, and there are more primaries in Larkfield and Lunsford nearby. So a family with children at two different ages can find schools for both without planning the day around a long drive.
The schools are one of Aylesford's real strengths, backed by a county where good is the norm. What needs managing is getting a place, not the quality of the teaching.