The schools around Prestbury are strong, because Gloucestershire's are mostly strong. Nearly nine in ten graded settings in the county are good or better. Only one is rated inadequate. The village's own junior school is named after it. For a parent, the hard part here is the admissions form, because finding a decent school is easy.
Ofsted has graded 156 settings across Gloucestershire, and 136 of them are good or better, which is close to nine in every ten. Nine are outstanding, 127 are good, 19 require improvement and one is inadequate. Another 95 settings have no published grade yet, and they are left out of those counts. All of these figures cover the whole county, so they describe the system Prestbury's children enter rather than any one school gate. The county's schools are about as reliable as the village bus timetable is not.
Prestbury St Mary's Church of England Junior School carries the village's name, and St Mary's Church of England Infant School appears alongside it among the local schools. Glenfall Community Primary School and Holy Apostles' Church of England Primary School are in the wider list too. For older children, the secondaries nearby include Pittville School and Cleeve School. Gloucestershire County Council allocates places under its published admissions rules, so living near any of these schools does not secure a place at it, and church schools can add faith criteria of their own. Read the admissions policy for the school you have in mind, including any church-attendance rules, and do it while the house is still a listing. Families who chose a church school for the results tend to learn its admissions criteria in more detail than its curriculum.
Ashley Manor Preparatory School and Berkhampstead School are among the independent options in the area. For some households, they become the plan when the county's offer letter does not go their way.
Schools are one of Prestbury's real strengths. The county gets nearly all of its graded settings to good or better, and the main thing a parent here has to win is a place.