The schools around Datchet are good, and the inspection record backs that up. Most nearby schools are rated good or better. The village has its own primary. The secondary results are strong. The admissions rules decide who gets in, and they pay no attention to how much the house cost.
Datchet St Mary's Church of England Primary School is the one carrying the village's name, and for most families on this side of the river it is the starting point. Wraysbury Primary School is the next village along. Across the four state primaries in the area, the average maths score at the end of primary school is about 106. The Department for Transport's 2019 modelling puts the nearest primary about a 15-minute walk away on average. Children here can still walk to school, which is more than their parents will manage at the secondary stage.
The six state secondaries in the area average an Attainment 8 score of about 64, the measure of results across eight subjects in the exams at sixteen. A nearby church secondary is the closest option for many Datchet families. The list also holds Langley Grammar School, Upton Court Grammar School and St Bernard's Catholic Grammar School, and a school with "grammar" in its name selects its pupils, so a test sits between the child and the place. On the same 2019 modelling, the nearest secondary is about a 31-minute walk or 19 minutes by public transport. That jump from a short walk to a half-hour journey usually lands in the September a child starts Year 7.
Ofsted has graded 25 schools and settings across the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, and 21 of them are good or better, more than eight in ten. Two are outstanding. Three require improvement and one is inadequate, so the record has weak spots even if they are few. Another 32 settings have no published grade yet. That says nothing about their quality, only that inspectors have not reported on them.
None of this buys a place. The council allocates school places under its published admissions rules, and living in sight of a school gate gives no right to a seat in the classroom. Read those rules for the specific school, including any faith criteria at the church schools and the entrance test at the grammars, and do it while the house is still a viewing. Parents who bought on the strength of the primary at the end of the road, and only checked the secondary rules later, tend to find out what an oversubscription criterion is the hard way.
Schools are one of Datchet's real strengths. The inspection record is solid across the borough, the results are high at both ages, and the only serious obstacle is the admissions paperwork.