Crowthorne's schools are hard to fault. Every graded school in the borough is good or better. None sits below that line. Two have gone all the way to outstanding. The hard part isn't finding a good school here, it's getting a place at one.
Ofsted has graded 17 schools in the Bracknell Forest count that covers Crowthorne, and all 17 are rated good or outstanding. That's every one of them, with 2 outstanding, 15 good, and none rated requires improvement or inadequate. These figures cover the local authority as a whole rather than the village alone, so they describe the system Crowthorne's children are in, not a ranking of the schools at the end of any one road. Another 17 settings hold no published grade yet, which means they haven't been graded, not that they failed.
A clean sheet like that changes how parents behave. In most places, buyers pay a premium to escape a weak school. In Crowthorne there's no weak school to escape, so the anxiety moves on to the one question left, which is whether your child gets the particular school you had in mind. Living near a named school doesn't guarantee a place at it. Admissions run on the council's criteria, and they change year to year with the number of applicants. Parents who buy a house on the strength of "we're close enough" sometimes learn in spring that close enough is a council decision, not an estate agent's promise. The address is where you start, and the admissions rules get the final say.
The village's own primary is Crowthorne Church of England Primary School, which is the name most local families will meet first. Wildmoor Heath School and the Oaklands Infant and Junior schools are among the other primaries in the surrounding area. For secondary, Edgbarrow School is the obvious nearby name. The Department for Transport's 2019 modelling put the nearest primary about 12 minutes' walk from the typical Crowthorne home and the nearest secondary about 24 minutes on foot or 10 by car, so the school run can be done without a car at primary age and with one grumbling teenager at secondary.
Then there's Wellington College, which opened in 1859 and is the reason Crowthorne exists at all. The village grew up around it rather than the other way round, and its first headmaster, Edward White Benson, had a son, the essayist A. C. Benson, who was born on the grounds. Most places get a school once they've grown into a town. Crowthorne got the school first and built the town to fit around it.
A few nearby schools are no longer open, so any older list of local options should be checked against what is still running before it is trusted.
Schools are one of Crowthorne's real strengths. Picking between them is where parents spend their energy, because there's nothing weak left to avoid.