The schools around Eynsham are strong, and the county they sit in has a good record too. Nearly nine in ten graded schools in the county are good or better. The village has its own primary and its own secondary. A child can walk to either. For a village this size, that is about as good a start as school-run logistics get.
Ofsted has graded 121 schools across Oxfordshire, and 108 of them are good or outstanding, close to nine in ten. Eleven hold an outstanding grade, ten are rated requires improvement and three inadequate. Another 151 settings in the county have no published grade yet, either because they are new or because they have not been inspected, and they tell a parent nothing either way. Those are county figures, so they describe the system Eynsham's children enter, while the school at the end of any one road could be one of the 108 or one of the 13.
Eynsham Community Primary School carries the village's name. Bartholomew School is the secondary. It shares its name with the Bartholomew Room, built in 1703 to house a parish charity school and later used as a gaol and a fire station, which makes Eynsham's tradition of schooling older than its tradition of locking people up. The Department for Transport's modelled journey times, from 2019, put the nearest primary about a nine-minute walk from the average home and the nearest secondary about 16 minutes. In a village where most commuters need a car, the school run is one journey that can be done on foot.
Oxfordshire County Council allocates places under its published admissions rules, so a house near Eynsham Community Primary or Bartholomew does not secure a place at either, however short the walk. The surrounding villages have their own Church of England primaries, among them Stanton Harcourt and Hanborough Manor, the latter on the Church Hanborough side that this page also covers. Families comparing the church schools should read each one's admissions criteria, because faith schools can set different rules from the community schools. Buyers who take "walking distance to schools" as a promise from the listing find out in the spring offer letter that it only ever described the walk.
Cokethorpe School is the independent option nearby, so Eynsham parents can choose whether to pay school fees. Few have to, given what the state schools within walking distance offer.
Schools are one of Eynsham's real strengths. Both the primary and the secondary are in the village, both are a short walk from most homes, and the county around them is solid enough that the remaining worry is the admissions rules.