Good, and good enough that getting a place is the harder part. Around nine in ten graded schools across the county are good or better. Most homes have a primary within a ten-minute walk. Inadequate schools are rare enough to count on one hand. Standards aren't the worry in Woking. Admissions are.
The primary figures need reading carefully. Only one mainstream state primary in the area appears in the attainment figures, and its average Key Stage 2 maths score was 101. One school's result is a sample size an opinion pollster would laugh at, so treat it as a single data point, not a reputation. Primaries on the local list include Horsell CofE Junior School, Goldsworth Primary School and Kingfield Primary School, with plenty more spread across the villages. In the Department for Transport's 2019 modelling, the nearest primary is about a 10-minute walk from the typical home, or about 7 minutes by car. For most families the school run is a walk.
Ofsted's grades are the stronger evidence. Across Surrey, 147 of the 159 settings with a published grade are rated good or outstanding, which is the great majority. Thirty are outstanding, 7 require improvement and 5 are inadequate. Those figures cover the whole county, not only Woking, but that's the pool local families draw from. Another 194 settings haven't yet received a published grade and are left out of these counts, which says nothing about their quality either way.
At secondary level, the nearest school is about a 20-minute walk from the typical home, or around 9 minutes by car, again in the 2019 modelling. Woking High School opened in 1970 under a village name and took the town's name later. That's a reminder of how recently the villages became part of the town, and how much some residents would still like to separate them again. The Winston Churchill School has its own planetarium, opened in 2019 by a former pupil, the Doctor Who actor Peter Davison. It's open to the public outside school hours, so it may be the only secondary school in Surrey that people without children visit voluntarily. For sixth-form age, Woking College has taken students since 1977. Hoe Valley School, The Bishop David Brown School and a Catholic comprehensive complete the secondary options on the local list.
A school's name on this page is not a promise of a place. Admissions follow Surrey's rules, not the estate agent's description, and the distance that matters is the one the council measures. Before offering on a house because of a particular school, check that school's admissions policy and how far away last year's last offer went. Buyers who skip this find out in spring, when there's no way to argue with it.
Schools are one of Woking's real strengths: most are rated good or better, the primary is usually within walking distance, and the thing that decides whether your child gets in is the admissions arithmetic.