Good, and parents around here are paying for that in the house price. The village has its own infant school. Nine in ten graded schools across Surrey are good or better. The secondaries are a bus ride or a drive, not a stroll. Finding a decent school is the easy part here; getting a place is where the effort goes.
At primary level, the five mainstream state primaries in the area post an average Key Stage 2 maths score of 104.5. Shalford Infant School is the one carrying the village's name, and a typical walk to the nearest primary is about 12 minutes on the Department for Transport's 2019 modelling. Older children move on to junior schools such as Tillingbourne Junior School, and the wider area also has Busbridge CofE Aided Junior School and Wonersh and Shamley Green CofE Aided Primary School within reach. For a small village, the primary options aren't a compromise you accept for the fields.
Secondary is where the geography starts to matter. The two mainstream state secondaries in the area have a pupil-weighted Attainment 8 score of about 55. Nearby options include Broadwater School and Guildford County School, with Godalming College for sixth form. The same Department for Transport modelling puts the nearest secondary about 13 minutes away by car, 27 minutes by public transport and 43 minutes on foot. So teenagers here learn the bus timetable early, or parents learn the school run.
Across the whole of Surrey, Ofsted has graded 147 of 159 settings good or better, which is more than nine in ten. Thirty are outstanding, seven require improvement and five are inadequate. These figures cover the county, not Shalford alone, so they describe the system your child's school sits in rather than any particular one. A further 194 settings hold no published grade yet and aren't counted either way.
Surrey also has a busy independent sector. Charterhouse, St Catherine's School and Prior's Field School all fall within the wider area, for families whose budget already survived the house price and still has room for fees.
None of this guarantees a place. Living near a school named here doesn't mean your child gets into it, and admissions follow the rules for each school, not the estate agent's description of the house. Check the admissions criteria for the specific schools you want before you commit to an address, because the offer letter arrives long after the exchange of contracts.
Schools are one of Shalford's real strengths: good primaries on the doorstep, solid secondaries a short trip away, and a county system where poor grades are the exception.