Teddington's schools are about as good as a school list gets. Every graded school in the borough is good or better. Two in five are outstanding. The nearest primary is a short walk from most front doors. The hard part is getting a place.
Across Richmond upon Thames, Ofsted has graded 25 schools and settings, and all 25 are good or better. That is every one of them. Ten are rated outstanding and 15 good, and none is rated requires improvement or inadequate. Another 25 settings in the borough have no published grade yet, and they are missing from those counts because nobody has graded them, which tells you nothing either way about how good they are. Parents comparing boroughs on Ofsted grades will not find a weak result here to talk themselves out of.
Teddington has four primaries in the town itself: Collis Primary School, Stanley Primary School, Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, and St Mary's and St Peter's Church of England Primary School. Hampton Wick Infant and Nursery School is just to the south. Teddington School is the local secondary. The Department for Transport's modelled journey times, from 2019, put the nearest primary about eight minutes' walk from the typical home and the nearest secondary about 11 minutes away. In a town built around the National Physical Laboratory, parents tend to measure the walk to the school gate to the metre.
Being close to a school does not decide who gets in. Places are allocated under the council's published admissions rules, and the church and Catholic primaries set their own criteria on top, so a house a short walk from the gate is a head start with no promise attached. With every graded school in the borough at good or better, the parents fighting hardest over the allocation rules are mostly choosing between good and outstanding. Read Richmond upon Thames's admissions criteria for the specific school, and the furthest distance it has offered places from in recent years, before you build a house purchase around it.
St Mary's and St Peter's has the longest story in town. It goes back to a bequest from Dorothy Bridgeman, widow of Sir Orlando Bridgeman, who died in 1697 and left money in trust to educate the poor children of the parish. In 1832 the foundation opened a boys' school under the patronage of Queen Adelaide, and the primary still uses those buildings. A charity set up for children whose parents could pay nothing now educates children whose parents paid Teddington prices to live nearby.
Schools are one of Teddington's real strengths. The grades are not the problem here; getting a place is, and buyers should worry about the admissions rules long before they worry about the inspection reports.