Norwood Green's schools are good, and the primaries are better than good. The local primaries average a maths score above the expected standard. There are two schools carrying the Norwood Green name, one for infants and one for juniors. Across the borough, all but three graded schools are good or outstanding. Parents here have fewer school worries than the crime figures and the deprivation score would lead anyone to expect.
There are 10 mainstream state primaries around Norwood Green, and their pupils average about 106 in the key stage 2 maths test. That is above the government's expected standard, and it is an average across all ten, not one school carrying the rest. Norwood Green Infant and Nursery School and Norwood Green Junior School split the primary years between them, so a family in the village does the school-gate routine twice with the same uniform colours. St Mary's Church of England Primary Norwood Green is beside the parish church on the green, and Three Bridges Primary School takes its name from Brunel's road-over-canal-over-railway in the north-east corner. Not many schools are named after a piece of Victorian civil engineering.
There is one mainstream state secondary in the area, and its pupils average an Attainment 8 score of about 49 across their best eight subjects at sixteen. That is a solid result, though with only one school, the local figure is that school's figure. Featherstone High School is the nearby secondary on the list, and families will also look further across Ealing and Hounslow. A single school makes for a short list of options, and a short list of options makes for a crowded open evening.
Ofsted has graded 39 schools in Ealing, and 36 of them are good or outstanding, which is all but a handful. Fourteen are outstanding, three require improvement and none is inadequate. Those counts are for Ealing as a whole, so they describe the borough a family is choosing within, not the particular school down the road. Several dozen more settings in the borough have no published grade yet and are left out of the total entirely. A school with no grade has simply not been graded, which is a different thing from a bad school.
Places at every one of these schools are allocated under Ealing Council's published admissions rules, and living near a school with Norwood Green in its name does not guarantee a place in it. Faith schools such as St Mary's often apply their own criteria on top of distance, so the rules matter as much as the map. Ask the council for last year's allocation outcomes for any school you are counting on, since that is the only evidence of how far its intake reached. Families who buy for one school and plan to sort out the paperwork later tend to learn the admissions rules from the offer letter.
Schools are one of Norwood Green's real strengths. The primaries do better than the area's reputation suggests, and a family buying here for the schools has made one of the safer calls in this part of west London.