Good, and the primaries are where the case is strongest. Most of the schools Ofsted has graded across the county are good or outstanding. The local primaries post healthy maths results. There is one state secondary in the area. Families here worry less about the teaching and more about getting a place.
There are four mainstream state primaries in the area, and their average end-of-primary maths score is about 108. Chalfont St Peter Infant School and Chalfont St Peter CofE Academy carry the village's name, and St Joseph's Catholic Primary School and Robertswood School are among the other local options. The Department for Transport's 2019 modelling puts the nearest primary about eleven minutes' walk from the average home. For most families the primary years are the easy part of living here.
The one mainstream state secondary in the area is The Chalfonts Community College, and its pupils averaged about 39 on the government's Attainment 8 measure, which scores results across eight subjects at sixteen. A single school is a small base for any figure, so look at the school's published results and its most recent inspection report yourself. The same 2019 modelling puts the nearest secondary about 26 minutes' walk away, or about ten by car. Plenty of parents who chose a house for the walk to the infant school discover at eleven that the secondary is a lift.
Buckinghamshire's inspection record is strong. Ofsted has graded 80 of the county's 94 graded settings good or outstanding, which is most of them, and 19 of those are outstanding. Eleven require improvement and three are inadequate. Settings with no published grade yet sit outside those counts entirely.
Places at all of these schools are allocated under Buckinghamshire Council's published admissions rules. Buying a house near a named school gives you a better chance of a place, and no certainty of one. The useful check is the council's record of how far away the last child offered a place lived in recent years, because that distance moves with every intake. Families who read it before choosing a house tend to sleep better in the spring their child's offer arrives.
The village has a wider list of schools beyond the state primaries and the college, including Gayhurst School, Maltman's Green School and Thorpe House School. Parents compare them as carefully as they compare houses.
For a family that can afford the house, the schools are one of Chalfont St Peter's real strengths. The primaries are close and do well, the county's inspection record is good, and the main effort goes into the admissions form.