Wargrave's schools are very good, which is part of why the houses cost what they do. Almost every graded school in the district is good or better. The local primaries do well in maths. There is one state secondary nearby, not a choice of five. What worries parents here is getting a place, not the quality of the school at the end of it.
There are 11 mainstream state primary schools in and around the Wargrave area, which also covers Charvil, Knowl Hill and Sonning. Their average score in the end-of-primary maths tests is about 107. The names local parents will know include the Robert Piggott Church of England infant and junior schools, Crazies Hill Church of England Primary School and Sonning Church of England Primary School. Several of the primaries carry a church name, and the admissions arrangements that come with that are worth reading before you choose a house.
At secondary level there is 1 mainstream state school in the area, so the choice is narrower than house prices like these might lead you to expect. Its pupil-weighted Attainment 8 score, the standard measure of results across eight subjects at sixteen, is about 51. The Piggott School is the secondary name buyers will hear most. Families who find the local secondary isn't the right fit will be comparing others beyond the village, and that usually means a longer school run.
Ofsted's grades cover the whole of Wokingham, not just this corner of it. Of the 24 settings in the district with a published overall grade, 22 are good or better: nearly all of them. Four of those are outstanding, 2 require improvement and none are inadequate. Another 38 settings have no published grade yet. That tells you nothing about their quality, so leave them out of any headline figure rather than counting them as a problem.
None of this guarantees a place. A school name in an estate agent's listing is not the same as an offer letter, and admissions are decided by the school's or council's own criteria. Those can include distance, siblings and, for church schools, faith-based priorities. Check each school's current admissions policy against the exact address before you exchange contracts. Spring is when families find out whether the house they bought came with the school they wanted, and the listing photos don't cover that.
Schools are one of Wargrave's real strengths: well graded across the district and strong where it counts at primary level. The price of getting a place here is paid when you buy the house.