Good, almost without exception, and it is the one subject Wokingham parents have largely stopped arguing about. Nearly every graded school and setting in the borough is good or outstanding. A handful are outstanding. None is inadequate. Quality is settled here; getting a place is where the parental energy goes now.
Ofsted has published an overall grade for 24 schools and settings across the Wokingham local authority, and 22 of them are good or outstanding, which is all but two. Four hold an outstanding grade, 18 are good, two require improvement and none is inadequate. These counts cover the whole local authority, not the town alone, so a family in one corner of the borough and a family in another are reading the same scoreboard. A further 38 settings hold no published grade yet and sit outside those figures entirely. The inspection record is the sort of thing estate agents like to wave about, and for once they have the paperwork.
A school with a Wokingham address is not a school with a Wokingham place for your child. Naming a school in a property listing guarantees nothing about admission, and the local authority's admissions rules decide who gets in each year, not the proximity boasted in the brochure. Buyers who pay extra to be near a particular gate and then skip the admissions criteria are writing a very expensive letter to themselves. Check the current rules for the specific school before the offer, not after the survey.
A few names say something about how the town is laid out. Westende Junior School sits near the town centre on Seaford Road, bordered by St Crispin's School and the King George V playing field, and most of its children come up from Wescott Infant School, with the two sharing a parent-teacher association. In 1995 Westende opened The Acorns, the first junior school resource in Berkshire for pupils with a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders, which is the kind of first a town tends to keep quiet about and should not. On the secondary side, St Crispin's, The Holt School and The Emmbrook School serve the town, with a wider spread of infant, junior and primary schools across the estates. The Department for Transport's modelled journey times, from 2019, put the nearest primary at about an 11-minute walk on average and the nearest secondary at about 27 minutes on foot or about 11 by car. The morning school run is short; the queue to turn out of the close is the long part.
For schools, Wokingham is one of the strongest places to be in the county's orbit, and the real contest is admissions rather than quality.