The schools are the best reason to live in Smallfield. Surrey's inspectors rate more than nine in ten schools good or better. Thirty of them are outstanding. The village primary is close enough to walk to. For secondary, get the car keys out.
Primary schooling is on the doorstep. There are three mainstream state primaries around here, and their pupils average a scaled score of about 106 in the maths tests at the end of primary school. Burstow Primary School carries the parish's own name and is the village's obvious first call. The modelled journey to the nearest primary is about 19 minutes on foot, 15 by public transport or 8 by car. Other primaries within reach include Langshott Primary School and Meath Green Junior School, so parents who miss out on their first choice are not left with nothing.
Secondary is thinner on the ground. There is one mainstream state secondary in the area, with a pupil-weighted Attainment 8 score of 43. That is one building's result and should be read as one building's result, not as a verdict on the whole area. Oakwood School and Hazelwick School are among the secondaries in reach. The modelled trip to the nearest secondary is about 12 minutes by car, 27 by public transport and 48 on foot. The walk is on the map. Hardly anyone is on the pavement doing it.
The Ofsted numbers are where Smallfield scores. Ofsted has graded 147 of Surrey's 159 inspected schools good or better, more than nine in ten, and 30 of those are outstanding. Seven require improvement and five are inadequate, a short list for a county that size. These are counts for the whole local authority, not the village, so they describe the system your child joins rather than the building at the end of your road. Another 194 settings hold no published overall grade yet. That means not yet graded, not bad.
None of this buys a place. Admission depends on each school's own rules and where the house sits relative to them, and the admissions system does not care which estate agent told you the house was "in catchment". A school name in a listing is a sales line, not an offer letter. Check the admission arrangements for the exact address before the offer goes in, not after the survey.
If schools are the reason you are looking at Smallfield, the reason holds up: this is one of its real strengths, and the one thing about the place that needs no apology.