Good, and consistently good. Almost every graded school in the district is good or better. The village has its own infant and junior schools. Children sit their exams at sixteen and come out respectable. Parents moved here for the schools and have no plans to stop talking about them.
Primary is the strongest bit, and it starts in the village. Mortimer St. John's C.E. Infant School and Mortimer St Mary's C.E. Junior School both carry the village's name. Families who have spent years driving to a school in another village will notice the difference. Across the three state primaries in the area, pupils averaged 105 in Key Stage 2 maths. That's a solid result, the kind that keeps parents quiet at the school gate and slightly smug in the pub. Silchester Church of England Primary School and Sulhamstead and Ufton Nervet School are among the other names nearby.
At secondary level there is one mainstream state secondary in the area, and its pupils averaged about 52 on the Attainment 8 measure, which scores a pupil's best eight results at sixteen. That's a respectable figure without any showing off. The Willink School and Theale Green School are the secondary names local parents weigh up. Neither decision is made on the day the offer letter arrives, whatever parents say afterwards.
Ofsted has graded 21 of the 23 graded settings across West Berkshire good or better, so nearly all of them. Two are outstanding, two require improvement and none are inadequate. Those counts cover the whole local authority, not just Mortimer. Even so, a council with nothing rated inadequate and so few below good takes a lot of the anxiety out of choosing. The worry parents usually carry about the secondary transfer has less to work with here.
A school name in a village does not guarantee a place, and nothing on this page tells you where any admissions boundary falls. Admissions follow each school's published rules, which are fair and don't care how much you paid for the house. Check the admission arrangements for the specific school before you exchange contracts, not after. The rules won't bend for a family that assumed they would.
Schools are one of Mortimer's real strengths. Almost every graded school in the district is good or better, and the youngest children can walk to school in their own village.