Oxted's schools are good, and the competition to get into them is fiercer than the teaching. Surrey's graded schools mostly pass. The primaries around here score above the line. One secondary serves the whole town. The hard part is the admissions form, not the education behind it.
Around here there are 2 mainstream state primaries with published Key Stage 2 results, and their pupils averaged about 105 in the maths test. On a scaled score, that's a result parents quote at the school gate. St Mary's Church of England Primary School on Silkham Road is the big one. It merged with the school next door in 2018, which put two playgrounds' worth of parent politics under one roof. Hurst Green Infant School and Holland Junior School split the job in the south of the parish. Infants start at one and juniors finish at the other, so a family there gets two sets of uniform and a longer run on the same school route. Journey-time modelling from 2019 puts the nearest primary about 12 minutes' walk away on average.
Secondary schooling around here means one mainstream state school, and its pupils averaged an Attainment 8 score of about 45. That school is Oxted School. It opened in 1929 as the first co-educational grammar school in Surrey, back when mixing boys and girls in one building still counted as a daring policy. The same 2019 modelling puts the average walk to it at about 29 minutes. Most families will call that good for the legs and drive it anyway. Moor House School & College in Hurst Green is a separate case. It was founded in 1947 to teach children with speech and language impairments and fills a gap that mainstream schools can't.
The county picture is strong. Ofsted has graded 147 of Surrey's 159 graded settings Good or better, which is the overwhelming majority, and 30 of them are Outstanding. At the other end, 7 are rated Requires Improvement and 5 Inadequate. Those counts cover all of Surrey, not Oxted alone, so they describe the system your child enters rather than the school down the road. Plenty of Surrey settings have no published overall grade yet and sit outside those figures entirely.
Living near a named school doesn't get your child a place there. Admissions follow the council's and each school's own rules, and they don't care which estate agent told you the house was "in catchment". Check the admission criteria for the specific school before the offer on the house, not after the offer letter from the school.
Schools are among Oxted's real strengths: good results at primary, a county system that mostly delivers, and a secondary with a proper history. Around here the families compete with each other far more than the schools do.