The schools around Bray are good, and they are one of the easier parts of the decision to live here. More than four in five of the borough's graded schools are good or outstanding. The local primaries score well in maths. The nearest primary is a short walk away. The nearest secondary is far enough that most children get driven. Families come for the river, and the schools turn out to be the part of the move that needs least worrying about.
There are two mainstream state primaries in the area, and their pupils averaged a maths score of 104 in the end-of-primary tests. Holyport CofE Primary School takes its name from the village next door, and Braywick Court School is named after Braywick, one of the hamlets inside Bray parish. The Department for Transport's 2019 model puts the nearest primary about 12 minutes' walk from the average home, or about 8 minutes by car. In a parish of hamlets strung along country lanes, that is about as close as a school gets.
Secondary is a longer trip. The one mainstream state secondary in the area had a pupil-weighted Attainment 8 score of about 46. Holyport College is the nearest name to the village. Further out, the wider list takes in Maidenhead secondaries such as Newlands Girls' School. On the same 2019 model the nearest secondary is about 34 minutes on foot, 12 by car and 23 by public transport. In a village with two bus stops, nobody plans to make that trip by bus.
Across Windsor and Maidenhead, Ofsted has given a published grade to 25 schools, and 21 of them are good or outstanding, more than four in five. Two are outstanding, three require improvement and one is inadequate. Another 32 settings in the borough have no published grade yet and appear in none of those counts. Read each school's latest inspection report on Ofsted's site, because the borough total will not tell you which of those four weaker schools is closest to the house you are buying.
School places are allocated under the council's published admissions rules, so owning a house near a school's gates does not by itself win your child a place there. Check this year's criteria for each school you are counting on, including the faith criteria at the Church of England schools, and how far away the last child admitted lived. In a parish this well-off, the admissions policy gets read more closely than the mortgage offer.
The schools are one of Bray's strengths, with strong local primaries and a borough where most graded schools are good or better. The only real catch is that secondary school needs a car.