Bagshot's schools sit inside one of the stronger county systems. Across Surrey, more than nine in ten graded schools and settings are good or better. The nearest primary is a short walk for most homes. Secondary school means a bus or a lift. The infants walk and the teenagers get driven.
Ofsted has graded 159 schools and settings across Surrey, and 147 of them are good or outstanding. That's well over nine in ten, and 30 of the 147 hold the top grade. At the other end, 7 are rated requires improvement and 5 inadequate. These figures cover the whole county, not Bagshot alone, so they describe the system your child enters rather than the school at the end of your road. A further 194 settings hold no published overall grade yet, usually because they're new or haven't been inspected under the current framework. That says nothing either way about their quality, and they're left out of the count.
At primary level, Bagshot Infant School and Connaught Junior School are the two that carry the village's early years between them. The split between an infant school and a junior school means two sets of admissions, two sets of uniform and one change of school at seven, and parents who have only ever dealt with all-through primaries sometimes find that out in the first autumn. Hall Grove School is also in the area. On the Department for Transport's 2019 modelling, the nearest primary is about an eight-minute walk from a typical Bagshot home, and roughly the same by car, which makes driving to it slightly absurd.
Secondary is a longer trip. The same modelling puts the nearest secondary about 12 minutes away by car, 25 by public transport and around 38 minutes on foot. There's no secondary in the village itself, which is where the morning drive comes from, and the public transport times are 2019 figures, so services may have changed since. Check the current bus route before assuming the timetable will do the work.
None of this guarantees a place. Living near a named school does not secure admission, and Surrey allocates places under its own published rules, which are applied the same way to parents who read them carefully and parents who assumed. The ones who assumed tend to find out on offer day. Check the admissions criteria and the recent allocation history for any school you're relying on before you make an offer on a house, and look up each school's latest Ofsted report yourself rather than trusting the county-wide figure to speak for it.
The families here are a real but not dominant group: about 22% of Bagshot households are couples with children, and another 9% are lone-parent families. The schools serve a village where children are part of the mix rather than the entire reason the place exists.
Schools are one of Bagshot's real strengths. The local primaries are walkable, the county around them is strong on inspection, and the only real question is how far your teenager is prepared to travel.