Beaconsfield's schools are strong, and the county still makes children pass a test to find out which secondary they get. The primaries around here post high maths results. The two state secondaries in the area average well at sixteen. Buckinghamshire sorts its children by exam at eleven. The school quality is high, and the sorting is what keeps parents awake.
There are four mainstream state primaries in the area, and their pupils averaged a score of about 108 in the end-of-primary maths tests. Butlers Court School and Holtspur School are among them, and the church schools at St Mary and All Saints in Beaconsfield and at Seer Green serve their own corners of the parish. Jordans School covers the Quaker village of the same name, where William Penn is buried, which makes it the only primary round here with a founder of Pennsylvania in the churchyard.
The two mainstream state secondaries in the area average an Attainment 8 score of about 61, weighted by pupils. They are Beaconsfield High School and The Beaconsfield School, and Buckinghamshire Council runs a selective system, so which of the two kinds of school a child goes to turns on the eleven-plus as well as on where the family lives. Places at both are allocated by the council's published admissions rules, and a house round the corner from the gates secures nothing on its own. Families who move here for the grammar school and treat the exam as a formality tend to rediscover their opinions about comprehensive education in the autumn of Year 6.
Ofsted has graded 94 settings across Buckinghamshire, and 80 of them are good or outstanding, about 85%, with 19 rated outstanding. That county-wide figure also includes 11 settings rated as requiring improvement and 3 rated inadequate. Being one of those three is not improved by the other 91 being fine, though none of the schools named here is identified among them by anything in this answer.
The useful check is a dull one: read Buckinghamshire Council's admissions rules and the eleven-plus registration dates for the year your child would sit it, because the timetable runs on the council's calendar and not the moving van's. Beyond the state schools, the area also has Davenies School, High March School and Alfriston School.
The schools are one of Beaconsfield's real strengths, with high results at both ages and a county where most graded settings are good or better. The catch is the exam that decides which of them a child walks into.