Bordon's schools sit inside one of the better-performing school systems in the south of England. Nearly nine in ten graded schools across the county are good or better. There's a secondary in the town. The primaries are a short walk from most homes. The school run here is mostly footwork, not a turf war.
Ofsted has graded 211 schools across Hampshire, and 185 of them are rated good or outstanding, which is close to nine in ten. Of those, 27 are outstanding. At the other end, 16 require improvement and 10 are rated inadequate. These are county-wide counts, not Bordon's own, so they describe the system your child enters rather than the school at the end of your road. Another 226 settings in the county have no published grade yet, usually because they are new or not yet inspected, and they are left out of the total above rather than counted as failures.
For primary age, the town's own names are Bordon Infant School and Bordon Junior School, with Weyford Nursery and Primary Academy and Woodlea Primary School also serving the area. The Department for Transport's 2019 modelling puts the nearest primary about a ten-minute walk away on average, which is close enough that the car can stay on the drive. Secondary pupils in the town go to Oakmoor School on Budds Lane, which opened in 2019 when it replaced the previous secondary. The same modelling puts a secondary school about 15 minutes' walk from the average home. Hollywater School provides special education for children who need it.
None of those names comes with a guaranteed place. Hampshire County Council runs admissions, and living near a school improves your odds without promising anything. Parents who buy a house because it sits close to a particular school gate, then skip reading the admissions criteria, tend to learn the rules in the spring the offer letters arrive. Check each school's most recent Ofsted report and its admissions policy for the year you apply before you let a school decide which house you buy.
Schools are one of Bordon's real strengths. The county system is strong, the town has its own secondary, and most families can walk to a primary.