Binfield's schools are good, and there isn't a weak one on the list. Every graded school in the district is rated good or better. None has been marked down. A primary is about a ten-minute walk from the typical home. The hard part isn't finding a good school here, it's getting a place at one.
Ofsted has given 17 schools and settings in Bracknell Forest a published overall grade, and all 17 are good or better. Two of them are outstanding. None requires improvement and none is inadequate. These counts cover the whole local authority, not Binfield on its own, so they describe the district your child's school sits in rather than one particular gate. Another 17 settings have no published grade yet. That tells you nothing either way, and they aren't part of the count. It's unusual for a district to have no weak school to warn buyers about, and parents who moved here to avoid one can relax on that front.
Two schools carry the village's name. Binfield Church of England Primary School is the obvious local primary. King's Academy Binfield appears in the register as both a primary and a secondary, so one site can take a child from early years into the teens. The nearby Whitegrove Primary School adds to the local choice at primary age. For secondary, Garth Hill College is the other name buyers will see in the district, and Lambrook sits among the other schools listed in the area. Grades for individual schools aren't included here. Check each one on Ofsted's own register before you let the name on a school's gates settle a house purchase.
Living near a named school doesn't guarantee a place at it. Admissions run on the council's and the schools' own rules, and a house that looks close on a map can still miss out. Some buyers pay the extra for a house on the right road, assume the school place comes with it, and learn otherwise from the offer letter. Read the admissions criteria for the specific school before the survey, not after the move.
The distances are short. In the Department for Transport's 2019 modelling, the nearest primary was about 10 minutes' walk from the average home, or around eight minutes by car. The nearest secondary was about 23 minutes on foot, about nine minutes by car and about 16 by public transport. The walk to primary is realistic for most families. By secondary age, whether a child walks or gets driven comes down to how much the parents trust them with a pavement.
One nearby school has closed and is no longer an option, so ignore any old listing that still mentions it.
Schools are one of Binfield's real strengths. With every graded school in the district at good or better, the question for parents is which good school their child gets into, not whether there is one.