Purton's schools are good, and handily placed for anyone who hates the school run. The primary sits next door to the secondary. Both are a walk from most front doors. The county's inspection record is mostly good or better. For a village, that's a better set-up than plenty of towns manage.
The three state primaries in the area average about 104 on the end-of-primary maths scale. The village's own is St Mary's Church of England Primary School & Nursery, which opened in 2012 on the site of the old junior school. It replaced a split arrangement that had infants in a Victorian building from 1861 and juniors in newer buildings down the road. Two sites was one too many for a small village, and the rebuild fixed that. On the east side of the parish, Ridgeway Farm CofE Academy opened in 2016 to serve the new housing there. Lydiard Millicent CofE Primary School is the nearby village alternative. The modelled walk to the nearest primary is about 17 minutes, which suits a child with decent shoes.
There's one state secondary in the area, Bradon Forest School, in the middle of the village south of the High Street. Its pupil-weighted Attainment 8 score is about 48. The school was built in 1962 and takes children from Purton, Lydiard Millicent, Cricklade, Ashton Keynes and West Swindon, so a good slice of its intake arrives by bus while Purton's own children walk it in about 18 minutes. The nearest alternative named for the area is Lydiard Park Academy, for families who want a choice.
Ofsted's figures cover the whole of Wiltshire, not just Purton. Across the county it has graded 106 of 128 settings good or better, a little over four in five. Six are outstanding, 20 require improvement and two are inadequate. Another 73 settings have no published grade yet. That says nothing about their quality, only that the inspectors haven't been.
Living near a school doesn't guarantee your child a place at it. Admissions follow the council's rules and each school's oversubscription criteria, and the church schools may weigh things the map doesn't show. Check the admissions policy for the year you're applying before the removal van is booked. A viewing that ends with "it's round the corner" has made no promise at all.
Purton once had a primary out at Purton Stoke as well. It shrank as older pupils moved to Purton and closed in 1978, and the building now houses the Jubilee Gardens Project. Consolidation happened here decades ago, which is why everything now clusters in the middle of the village.
Schools are one of Purton's real strengths. Primary and secondary share a site, results hold up, and the walk takes less time than finding a parking space at the gate.