The schools are the reason the house prices make sense. Primary results sit well up the scale. The secondary is inside the village, not a bus ride away. Nine in ten schools across the county are graded good or better. Parents here aren't paying for the view.
The primary picture is strong. The four mainstream state primaries around here average a maths score of about 110 at the end of primary school, which is a high result by any reasonable comparison. The village's own primary is St Peter's CofE Primary School, on Little Green Lane, and the modelled walk to the nearest primary from a typical Wrecclesham home is about 16 minutes. Families on the southern edge also look at Rowledge Church of England Controlled Primary School, and families nearer Farnham at Potters Gate CofE Primary School. The shortlist is short because the good options are close together, which is a nicer problem than most parents get.
At secondary level, Wrecclesham is where the pupils come to. Weydon School sits in the village, and it pulls in families from across the Farnham side of the borough. The one mainstream state secondary in the area averages about 64 on the government's Attainment 8 measure, which tracks results across a pupil's best eight subjects at sixteen. That is a solid score. The modelled walk to a secondary is about 31 minutes, which in practice means teenagers walk and parents pretend it was their idea. Farnham Heath End and All Hallows Catholic School are the other secondaries families weigh up nearby.
Across Surrey as a whole, Ofsted has graded 147 of 159 schools good or better, a little over nine in ten. Thirty are outstanding. Seven were rated requires improvement and five inadequate. These counts cover the whole county rather than Wrecclesham itself, so they describe the standard of the system your child is joining, not the schools at the end of your road. Settings still waiting for a first published grade aren't counted either way.
A school's name on the estate-agent particulars is not a place. Admissions run on each school's own criteria, which often means distance, siblings and, for church schools, other conditions that are set out in the admissions policy. Check the policy for the specific school, look at where last year's places were allocated, and do it before the offer goes in rather than after the offer letter. A house two streets from a school gate can still miss out, and the council will explain why with the politeness of someone who isn't moving.
Schools are one of Wrecclesham's real strengths: strong primaries, a secondary on the doorstep and a county system that grades almost all of its schools well. The catch is that everyone else worked this out too, and the house prices already reflect it.