The schools in Bexley are good, and the local results are better than good. The primaries score well in maths. The one state secondary in the area posts results that would make a prospectus blush. Five in six graded schools across the borough are good or better. The difficulty is getting a place, which is a different question from whether the places are worth having.
Three mainstream state primaries in the area have published Key Stage 2 results, and their pupils averaged 106.5 in maths. Old Bexley Church of England School carries the village's name, and Hurst Primary School and Upton Primary School are among the others nearby, with Joydens Wood Infant School taking the youngest children on the wooded side of the patch. In the Department for Transport's 2019 modelling, the nearest primary is about nine minutes' walk from the average home. A child here can be at the gate before the parent has found the car keys, which is half the reason the parent bought the house.
Secondary is where the picture sharpens. There is one mainstream state secondary in the area, and its pupils averaged an Attainment 8 score of 71.6 at GCSE. Beths Grammar School is the named secondary on this patch, and a grammar school picks its pupils by entrance test, so a strong score partly reflects who was let through the door. The same 2019 modelling puts the nearest secondary about 20 minutes' walk away. Families who chose Bexley for the primary walk tend to discover the secondary plan has an exam in it, usually around the time the eldest stops wanting to be walked anywhere.
Ofsted has graded 36 schools across the London Borough of Bexley, and 30 of them are good or better, which is five in every six. Five of those are rated outstanding, five require improvement and one is inadequate. Another 39 settings in the borough hold no published grade yet, so they belong in neither column. The borough-wide spread is wider than the village's own results suggest, and the village only gets to choose from the part of it within reach.
None of this comes with a place attached. Bexley Council allocates school places by its published admissions rules, and buying the house closest to Old Bexley Church of England School secures a short walk and nothing else, whatever the particulars implied. Church schools often weigh faith criteria alongside distance, so read that school's own admissions policy and the council's allocation figures from last year for the specific school you have in mind. The mortgage buys the postcode, and the council decides the rest every spring with a spreadsheet and no interest in your loft conversion.
Schools are one of Bexley's real strengths, from primaries that do well in maths to a secondary with results most of the borough would envy. The only hard part is the admissions process, and the families who plan for it from the start get the most out of the house they paid for.