Good, and every parent in town can tell you why. Nearly every graded school around here is good or better. None has been rated inadequate. Two secondaries carry the whole town between them. The schools are the reason half the semis sold, and the sellers priced accordingly.
At primary level there are nine mainstream state primaries in the area, and their pupils average a scaled score of about 107 in maths at the end of primary school. Woodley Church of England Primary is the one wearing the town's name on the sign, and Highwood Primary and South Lake Primary sit among the others serving the estates either side of the town centre. The choice is broad enough that parents compare primaries the way other towns compare pubs, with strong opinions and very little evidence of having tried the alternatives.
Secondary is a two-horse town. The two mainstream state secondaries in the area post a pupil-weighted Attainment 8 score of about 51, the measure of how pupils do across eight subjects at sixteen. Waingels and The Bulmershe School are the names that come up at every school-run conversation, and which one a family ends up at shapes a surprising amount of Woodley small talk for the following five years.
Ofsted has graded 24 schools across the Wokingham authority, a wider patch than Woodley alone, and 22 of them are good or better, which is nearly all of them. Four are outstanding, two require improvement and none is inadequate. There are also 38 settings with no published grade yet, which says nothing either way about them. The borough's worst result is a school being told to try harder, and plenty of places would take that deal.
A school name on an estate agent's listing is not a place in the classroom. Admissions follow the council's own rules each year, and living near a school's gate improves the odds without promising the outcome. Buyers who pay a premium for a street and skip reading the admissions policy are the ones who find out in spring what they actually bought.
Woodley's schools are one of its real strengths, strong enough that the main risk for parents is not a bad school but paying extra for a particular good one and not getting it.