Haslemere's schools are good enough that the house price is partly a school fee. Nearly every graded school across Surrey is good or better. One state secondary covers the town. Private schools fill the gaps. Parents here get a choice, and the choice starts at the estate agent.
Ofsted has graded 159 schools and settings across Surrey, and 147 of them are rated good or outstanding: more than nine in ten. Of those, 30 are outstanding. At the other end, 7 are rated requires improvement and 5 inadequate. Those figures cover the whole county, not just Haslemere, so they set the standard of the system you're buying into rather than grading the school at the end of your road. Another 194 settings have no published grade yet, which means exactly that and nothing worse.
The local names carry some history. St Bartholomew's Church of England Aided Primary School began as a National school around 1813 and moved to its current site on Derby Road in 1986, so it's been teaching Haslemere to read for longer than most of the houses near it have been standing. Shottermill Infant School and Shottermill Junior School trace back to a Church of England school opened in the village around 1846, split over the years into the pair that now share Lion Lane. Grayswood Church of England (Aided) Primary School started as an infants' school and was expanded in 2015 to take children all the way to eleven. Every village fighting over its own primary gets one eventually.
For secondary, Woolmer Hill School to the north west of Shottermill is the one. It was built in 1950 under the Education Act 1944 and joined the Weydon Multi-Academy Trust in 2017. Department for Transport modelling from 2019 puts the nearest secondary about 11 minutes away by car and about 37 minutes on foot, which is fine in theory and wet in practice on the hills. The nearest primary is closer, about 14 minutes' walk. On the independent side, St Ives School in Three Gates Lane takes children from two to eleven, and the wider area has more private options of its own for parents who want to pay twice: once for the house, once for the fees.
A school named on this page is not a school your child gets into. Admissions run on each school's own criteria, and for the church schools that can mean more than just distance from the gate. Buyers who assume the house comes with the place get the allocation letter in spring and find out the rules were written down all along. Check the admissions policy of the specific school, for the specific year, before the offer goes in rather than after.
Schools are one of Haslemere's real strengths: the county system around them is about as strong as it gets, and the town has enough choice that the hard part is paying for the house, not finding the school.