The schools around Nailsworth are good, and the primaries are some of the best reasons to buy here. Primary results in the area are above average. Nearly nine in ten graded schools across the county are good or better. Most families can walk to a primary. The secondaries take a drive, and for a small valley town that is the only real catch.
Five mainstream state primaries in the area averaged a maths score of about 106 in the end-of-primary tests. Nailsworth Church of England Primary School is the one carrying the town's name, and Horsley Church of England Primary School and Amberley Parochial School serve the villages close by. The Department for Transport's 2019 modelling puts the walk to the nearest primary at about nine minutes. Up to the age of eleven, the school run here barely counts as a run.
Gloucestershire's schools and settings are graded by Ofsted across the whole county, and 136 of the 156 with a published grade are good or outstanding, so nearly nine in ten. Nine are outstanding, 19 require improvement and one is inadequate. Another 95 have not yet received a published grade and are left out of those counts.
Two of the three primaries named here are church schools, and the admissions form can show it. Gloucestershire County Council hands out places under its published admissions rules, and a church school can add criteria of its own, so living near the gate does not secure a place. Read the latest admissions rules for the exact school you want, including any faith criteria, while you still have time to pull out of a purchase. The house can be bought in a summer. The reception place is decided by someone else the following spring.
At secondary age, a school is a journey away. Archway School and Thomas Keble School are two of the secondaries within reach, and the Department for Transport's 2019 modelling puts the trip at about 16 minutes by car, 36 by public transport and 80 on foot. An eighty-minute walk is the number that sets up a lift rota among the parents.
The schools are one of Nailsworth's real strengths. The primaries are good and close, and the only serious complaint arrives when a child moves up to secondary and the school run becomes a drive.