Schools around Weybridge are good, and the hard part is getting a place at the one you picked. About nine in ten graded schools in the county are good or better. Around thirty are outstanding. The town has its own secondary and a cluster of primaries within walking distance of most homes. Grades are the easy part of the search. The admissions letter is the hard one.
Surrey County Council's area has 159 schools and settings holding a published Ofsted grade, and 147 of them, about nine in ten, are rated good or outstanding. Thirty carry the top grade. At the other end, seven are rated requires improvement and five inadequate, a small tail across a county-wide list. Another 194 settings have no published grade yet and sit outside that count entirely. All of these figures cover Surrey as a whole, so they describe the system Weybridge belongs to and say nothing about any single classroom in it.
That distinction matters in a town where the house price usually includes a hope about the school. Surrey County Council allocates places under its published admissions rules, and living close to a named school, even across the road from it, does not by itself secure a place there. Read the council's criteria for the specific schools you are counting on, including any faith-based priority, and check where recent places went, since the rules differ from school to school. Plenty of buyers pay for proximity and receive a view of the playground.
The primaries are spread across the town. St James Church of England Primary School is on Grotto Road, St Charles Borromeo Catholic Primary School has been on Heath Road since 1881, and Cleves School on Oatlands Avenue became an academy in 2010. Oatlands School and Manby Lodge Infant School serve the eastern side. For secondary, Heathside School on Brooklands Lane is the town's co-educational state option, and Brooklands College takes students on from there. St George's Junior School, a Catholic independent school for younger children, moved to Thames Street in 2000. Weybridge's first recorded school was a dame school on Baker Street, and three and a half centuries later the town still treats education as something worth arguing about over dinner.
The schools are one of Weybridge's real strengths, sitting inside a county system where good is the norm. The work for parents is in the admissions rules, where a postcode buys a chance and nothing more.