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Living in Ash with children

Ash, Surrey. What the published figures say about its schools, its homes and daily life, each with its source and date.

5schools in Ash
90%gigabit broadband

Schools

5 schools: 4 state primary, 1 state secondary
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Primary: expected standard, three-year average to 2024/25 (DfE) · red mark: Surrey 66%ResultOfsted
1Ash Grange Nursery and Primary SchoolPrimary · (126/219) · 65%Improved significantly
2Shawfield Primary SchoolPrimary · (180/219) · 58%Good
3Walsh CofE Junior SchoolPrimary · (219/219) · 26%Requires improvement
Secondary: grade 5+ English and maths, 2023/24 to 2025/26, weighted by cohort (DfE) · red mark: Surrey 56%ResultOfsted
1Ash Manor SchoolSecondary · Top 50% (28/57) · 54%School remains Good
Every school in Ash, with inspection, league band and the last place offered

State primary schools (4)

SchoolInspectionLeague tableLast place offered
Ash Grange Nursery and Primary SchoolImproved significantlyTop half · 126th in Surrey0.265 miles (2024)
Shawfield Primary SchoolGoodLower half · 180th in Surrey0.938 miles (2026)
Walsh CofE Junior SchoolRequires improvementLower half · 219th in Surrey—
Walsh CofE Infant SchoolGood——

State secondary schools (1)

SchoolInspectionLeague tableLast place offered
Ash Manor SchoolSchool remains GoodTop 25% · 28th in Surrey—

Rank: the school's place among its council's schools of the same phase, from three years of DfE results (kinplace's league table, how it is worked out); schools with hidden or no results get none. Inspections: Ofsted and ISI. Last place offered: the council's offer-day figures. School register: DfE Get Information about Schools, updated 17 October 2026.

Homes and prices

Typical sale, last 12 months (Land Registry)

We don't hold Land Registry sales for Ash yet, so its typical prices are unknown here.

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Getting around

Stops and stations (NaPTAN), and broadband (Ofcom)
1railway station within 2 km: Ash Rail Station (0.5 miles)
37bus stops within 1 km of the middle of its schools

Source: DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes). Straight-line distances.

Gigabit broadband can be ordered at 90% of premises, and superfast (30 Mbit/s) at 99%, on average across the 736 postcodes in GU12. Check the postcode you are looking at: it can differ street by street.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, July 2025, fixed broadband coverage by postcode (an average of postcodes, not of homes).

Safety and environment

The town centre; addresses vary
not heldCrimeWe don't hold police.uk figures for Ash yet.
Flood zone 1FloodAt the middle of its schools, the area is in flood zone 1 for rivers and the sea on the Environment Agency's Flood Map for Planning (not in zone 2 or 3, the lowest of the three). Surface-water risk: we don't hold that map, so it is unknown here. One point says little about a whole town, and the zones describe the area, not a building: check the address on the Environment Agency's long-term flood risk service.Source: Environment Agency, Flood Map for Planning (Rivers and Sea), read from its open download. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. Open Government Licence v3.0.
NO₂ 8.7AirAt the middle of its schools, an annual mean on DEFRA's 1 km map: nitrogen dioxide 8.7 µg/m³ (2024); PM2.5 7.0 µg/m³ (2024); PM10 10.6 µg/m³ (2024). A background figure, not the air beside a busy road. Source: DEFRA, Pollution Climate Mapping (PCM) 1 km background maps.

Childcare

Ofsted early years register; published prices
1registered nurseries and pre-schools
unknownnone of their fees is held yet

What Ofsted found: 1 good, or expected standard. A typical nursery place in this region costs about £7.58 an hour for a two-year-old.

All of them: 1 in Surrey.

Sources: Ofsted, Childcare providers and inspections; each nursery's own fees page, read by 16 October 2026; Coram Family and Childcare, Childcare Survey 2026: average nursery price for 50 hours a week after the working-parent entitlement (paying for 20 hours), by region.

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Key dates, Surrey

The next dates for families applying
Secondary applications close31 Oct 2026
Reception applications open2 Nov 2026
Primary applications close15 Jan 2027

Application deadlines and offer days: Surrey.

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Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Sources are named beside each figure. How we know · All sources.