The schools are good, and the competition for places is the hard part. Nearly every graded school in the borough is Good or Outstanding. None is failing. The nearest primary is a short walk from most front doors. In Twyford, finding a good school is easy. Getting a place at one is harder.
Ofsted has graded 24 schools and settings in Wokingham, and 22 of them are rated Good or Outstanding, so nine in ten or better. Four are Outstanding, two Require Improvement, and none is rated Inadequate. These counts cover the whole local authority, not only Twyford, so they describe the borough's schools rather than the ones at the end of your road. Another 38 settings hold no published grade yet. They are not graded badly, they simply have not been graded.
Getting to school is easy at primary age and slower at secondary. In the Department for Transport's 2019 journey-time model, the nearest primary was about 8 minutes on foot from the average home. The nearest secondary was about 26 minutes' walk, about 17 minutes by public transport or about 10 by car. The primary run is a stroll. The secondary run is where the parent taxi starts.
The school most families here will hear about first is The Piggott School, the secondary on the local list. For younger children, Polehampton Church of England Infant School and Polehampton Church of England Junior School both appear in the register, as do Robert Piggott Church of England Infant and Junior Schools. St Nicholas Church of England Primary carries Hurst in its name, and the Dolphin School sits outside the state system. The rest of the local list is a string of village primaries, mostly church schools, scattered across the surrounding parishes. A page like this cannot tell you the grade of any single one of them. Check the school's own latest inspection report before you let its reputation set your budget.
A school's name on a list is not a place at that school. Admissions are decided by each school's published criteria, and church schools can set their own, so living near one guarantees nothing. The buyers who get caught out picked the house for the school, then read the admissions policy after exchange. The buyers who get what they wanted read it first.
The schools are one of the real strengths of living in Twyford. The only thing standing between a child and a good school here is the admissions form.