Kensington's schools are very good, and the borough that runs them has the inspection record to back that up. Nearly every graded school is good or better. Eight are outstanding. Only one is inadequate. Getting a place is the hard part, because the council allocates those however much the house cost.
Across the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Ofsted has graded 22 schools, and 20 of them are good or outstanding, which is almost all of them. Eight carry the outstanding grade. One requires improvement and one is inadequate, so the borough's weak end comes down to two schools. Another 12 settings have no published grade yet. They are waiting for an inspection, and the gap says nothing about their quality. Since the grades cover the whole borough, a strong record next door doesn't tell you much about the school at the end of your own road.
Places are handed out under the council's published admissions rules. Living around the corner from a school gives you a better chance, but it doesn't secure a place, and the offer letter can still go to a family three streets further away. Before paying for a flat because of the school, read the council's admissions criteria and the oversubscription rules for that school. The criteria decide who gets in. The house price only decides who can afford to apply. "Moments from outstanding schools" appears in plenty of particulars, and the council's admissions team has never once been bound by it.
At primary age, Fox Primary School is one of the local options, alongside two Church of England primaries, St Mary Abbots and St Barnabas and St Philip's. St Mary Abbots takes its name from the parish church on the High Street. The nearest secondary is Holland Park School, so most families end up planning around it whether they meant to or not. Thomas's Kensington and Ashbourne College are also on the local list, for families who look past the state system. The rest of the borough's graded schools are spread across Kensington and Chelsea. Most are a short trip away, and their grades are no reason to cross any of them off.
Schools are one of Kensington's real strengths. The grades are excellent, and the only thing standing between a family and a place is the admissions system.