Tring's schools are good, and the county around them is one of the better places in England to be choosing one. Nearly nine in ten graded schools in Hertfordshire are rated good or better. The town has its own secondary with a sixth form. For most families a primary school is a short walk away. One school teaches the performing arts in a mansion Christopher Wren designed. Finding a good school here is the easy part, and getting a place is harder.
Ofsted has graded 227 schools across Hertfordshire, and 203 of them are good or better, close to nine in ten. Forty are rated outstanding, 21 require improvement and three are inadequate. Another 226 settings in the county have no published grade yet. These figures cover the whole of Hertfordshire, so they describe the standard of the county Tring's children are schooled in.
Tring School is the town's state secondary, an academy with a sixth form on Mortimer Hill on the east side of town, and the Department for Transport's 2019 modelling put the average walk from a Tring home to a secondary at about 18 minutes. For younger children, Grove Road Primary School and Dundale Primary School and Nursery take children right through primary age. Goldfield Infants' and Nursery School and Bishop Wood Church of England Junior School split those years between them. The same 2019 modelling put the nearest primary about a nine-minute walk from the typical home. Places are allocated under the council's published admissions rules, so living close to a school does not secure a place at it. Families heading for Goldfield should look up how Hertfordshire handles the move from infant to junior school, because it means a second application three years in. A family that plans only for the infant years gets a surprise when their child turns seven.
The independent option is Tring Park School for the Performing Arts, which occupies the Tring Park mansion. Wren designed the house in 1682 for Henry Guy, a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Charles II, and the Rothschilds lived there later. It now trains dancers and actors, which is a reasonable use for a house that was always meant to impress.
Schools are one of Tring's real strengths, and a family's main difficulty here is getting a place, because the town has the schools to choose from and the county's numbers back them up.