The schools around Earl's Court are very good, and that is one of the strongest things about the place. Nearly every graded school in the borough has been rated good or better. Primary pupils here do well in maths. The nearest primary is a short walk from most front doors. The hard part is getting a family-sized home within reach of one.
The area has two mainstream state primaries, and their pupils averaged 109 in the Key Stage 2 maths tests. Bousfield Primary School is the one named locally among the state primaries. On the Department for Transport's modelled 2019 times, the nearest primary is about a six-minute walk away, and the nearest secondary about 19 minutes on foot or 16 by public transport. Collingham and Wetherby School, Kensington, are also on the local list, outside the two state primaries in that count.
Ofsted has graded 22 schools and settings across the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, and 20 of them came out good or better, which is nearly all of them. Eight of those are rated outstanding. One requires improvement and one is inadequate. A further 12 settings have no published grade yet. They are unknowns, which is a different thing from being poor.
Living in Earl's Court decides nothing about which school you get. The council allocates places under its published admissions rules, and those rules care about criteria such as distance and siblings, so a flat a few streets from a school door can still miss out. It pays to check the council's figures for how far away the last child offered a place lived at each school on your list. Families who assume that a postcode this expensive comes with a guaranteed school place usually learn otherwise from a letter in April.
With borough-wide grades this strong, the risk for a family here is the admissions rules and the size of the flat, not the classroom.
