Lydney's schools are good, and the county system they belong to is one of the town's strengths. Almost nine in ten graded schools in the county are rated good or better. Nine are outstanding. Only one is inadequate. A family moving here for the house will not be disappointed by the school list.
Ofsted has given a grade to 156 schools across Gloucestershire, and 136 of them are good or outstanding, which is close to nine in ten. Nine of those are outstanding, 19 require improvement and one is inadequate. Another 95 settings have no published grade yet, because they are new or haven't been inspected. They are not counted either way. Those figures cover the whole of Gloucestershire, so they describe the county system Lydney's children join, not a league table for the town.
Gloucestershire County Council allocates school places under its published admissions rules. Living a short walk from a school doesn't guarantee your child a place there. Read the admissions criteria for the school you have in mind, and how far its last few places reached, alongside the survey and the searches. The house and the school place are two separate transactions, and only one of them is in your control. Families who learn that in the spring the offers arrive tend to remember it.
The primary that carries the town's name is Lydney Church of England Community School. Primrose Hill Church of England Primary Academy and Severnbanks Primary School also appear in the town's local list. Aylburton and Blakeney, both covered by this page, have their own primaries: Aylburton Church of England Primary School and Blakeney Primary School. The surrounding Forest villages, Bream, Yorkley, Parkend and Pillowell among them, add more small primaries, so a choice of primary is easy to find. For secondary, the name on the local list is The Dean Academy. In Lydney, comparing secondaries is a short conversation.
Schools are one of Lydney's real strengths. Parents get a county system where good is the norm and outstanding is not unusual, at house prices that leave money over for school shoes.