The schools around Ewhurst are good, and the county they sit in is better than most. The village has its own infant school. The primaries nearby score above the expected standard. More than nine in ten graded Surrey schools are good or better. The only real problem is geography, and geography never gets inspected.
For the youngest children, Ewhurst CofE Aided Infant School is the one carrying the village's name, and the nearest primary is about a 14-minute walk. An infant school covers the early years only, so families plan for a second move at seven, not a single set of gates for the whole of primary. The three mainstream state primaries in the area averaged 102.5 in the Key Stage 2 maths test, a respectable result that leaves nobody reaching for the smelling salts. Nearby options named in the area include Cranleigh Church of England Primary School and Park Mead Primary, with St Cuthbert Mayne Catholic Primary School also on the list for families who meet its criteria.
Secondary is where the village runs out and the car takes over. There is one mainstream state secondary in the area, and its pupils averaged an Attainment 8 score of 53.2. Glebelands School is the named secondary option locally. The nearest secondary is about 15 minutes by car, roughly half an hour by public transport, and a 67-minute walk that no teenager will agree to twice. The school run doesn't end when the children get older. It gets longer.
Across Surrey as a whole, Ofsted has graded 147 of 159 inspected settings good or better, which is more than nine in ten. Thirty are rated outstanding, seven require improvement and five are inadequate. Those counts cover the whole county, not Ewhurst alone, so they describe the system your children will be sorted into rather than the building at the end of your lane. The county-wide picture is strong, and it's the sort of strong that brings competition for places with it.
Living near a school doesn't guarantee a place at it. Admissions run on each school's own criteria, and church schools in particular may weigh things other than distance. Check the published admissions rules for any school you're counting on before you exchange, not after. Every year some family buys the house for the school and finds out in spring that the council's rules read the map differently. The algorithm has no idea how much you paid for the garden.
The schools are one of Ewhurst's real strengths: good teaching, a strong county and a village infant school on the doorstep. The drive to the secondary is the price of having the hills out of the back window.