Good, and the parents know it. The state primaries around here score well. The one state secondary nearby posts solid results. The wider county has few failing schools. The weak point is the walk to secondary school, not the teaching.
There are 5 mainstream state primaries in the area, and their pupils averaged a maths score of about 105 at the end of primary school. Woodcote Primary School is in the village. The Department for Transport's 2019 modelling puts the nearest primary about a 13-minute walk away on average, so the school run can happen on foot, whatever the driveway suggests. The rest of the local primaries are spread across the surrounding villages. For a family, that means a choice between a few good schools rather than no choice at all.
At secondary level the area has one mainstream state school, and it posted an Attainment 8 score of 58. Langtree School is the local secondary. On the same 2019 modelling, the nearest secondary is about 30 minutes' walk, about 23 minutes by public transport and about 10 minutes by car. Teenagers here learn early that independence depends on a bus timetable.
The Ofsted numbers are for all of Oxfordshire, not just Woodcote. Across the county, Ofsted has given 108 of 121 graded settings a good or outstanding rating, which is nearly nine in ten. Of those, 11 are outstanding. At the other end, 10 require improvement and 3 are inadequate. Another 151 settings have no published grade yet. That says nothing about their quality, only that no grade has been published.
Independent schools are close by. The Oratory School, The Oratory Preparatory School and Pangbourne College are all within reach. For some families that's a real option. For others it's a building they drive past while explaining the price of a school blazer.
One caveat applies before any offer on a house. Living near a named school doesn't guarantee a place there. Admissions follow the council's rules, not the estate agent's description, and oversubscribed schools can draw their line well short of the street a buyer hoped was close enough. Check the admission rules for the specific school and the specific year before assuming anything, especially if the house price already assumes a place.
Schools are one of Woodcote's real strengths. The state options are good enough that most families never need the fee-paying ones next door, and the only thing a local child is short of is a quick walk to secondary school.