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Living in Marlow with children

Marlow, Buckinghamshire and Windsor and Maidenhead. What the published figures say about its schools, its homes and daily life, each with its source and date. 14,641 people in 6,198 households; 31.1% of households have dependent children (Census 2021 (ONS, via NOMIS), summed over the town's output areas).

10schools in Marlow
£630ktypical semi, 12 months
57crimes a year per 1,000 people
80%gigabit broadband

Schools

10 schools: 8 state primary, 2 state secondary
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Primary: expected standard, 2025 results (DfE) · red mark: Buckinghamshire 65%ResultOfsted
1Danesfield SchoolPrimary · Top 3% (4/143) · 90%School remains Outstanding
2Spinfield SchoolPrimary · Top 4% (5/143) · 89%Good
3St Peter's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary · Top 38% (54/143) · 71%Standards maintained
4Holy Trinity Church of England (Aided) SchoolPrimary · Top 40% (57/143) · 71%Outstanding
5Burford SchoolPrimary · (75/143) · 68%Good
6Foxes Piece SchoolPrimary · (97/143) · 63%Good
7Bisham Church of England AcademyPrimary · (19/27) · 55%Ofsted report card
Secondary: attainment 8, 2026 results (DfE) · red mark: Buckinghamshire 55.3ResultOfsted
1Sir William Borlase's Grammar SchoolSecondary · 1st (1/36) · 76.7Outstanding
2Great Marlow SchoolSecondary · Top 50% (18/36) · 49.2School remains Good
Every school in Marlow, with inspection, league band and the last place offered

State primary schools (8)

SchoolInspectionLeague rankLast place offered
Danesfield SchoolSchool remains OutstandingTop 3% (4/143) in Buckinghamshire3.656 miles (2026)
Spinfield SchoolGoodTop 4% (5/143) in Buckinghamshire—
St Peter's Catholic Primary SchoolStandards maintainedTop 38% (54/143) in Buckinghamshire—
Holy Trinity Church of England (Aided) SchoolOutstandingTop 40% (57/143) in Buckinghamshire—
Burford SchoolGood(75/143) in Buckinghamshire—
Foxes Piece SchoolGood(97/143) in Buckinghamshire—
Bisham Church of England AcademyOfsted report card(19/27) in Windsor and Maidenhead—
Marlow Church of England Infant SchoolGood—3.514 miles (2026)

State secondary schools (2)

SchoolInspectionLeague rankLast place offered
Sir William Borlase's Grammar SchoolOutstanding1st (1/36) in Buckinghamshire3.121 miles (2026)
Great Marlow SchoolSchool remains GoodTop 50% (18/36) in Buckinghamshire2.364 miles (2025)

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)
Detached£1,000,000
Semi-detached£630,000
Terraced£550,000
Flat or maisonette£345,000

The middle sale of each type, September 2025 to August 2026: half sold for more, half for less (56 detached, 28 semi-detached, 55 terraced, 46 flat or maisonette sales). Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, standard sales inside the ONS built-up area outline of Marlow. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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Getting around

Stops and stations (NaPTAN), and broadband (Ofcom)
1railway station within 2 km: Marlow Rail Station (0.5 miles)
29bus stops within 1 km of the town centre

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

Gigabit broadband can be ordered at 80% of premises, and superfast (30 Mbit/s) at 96%, on average across the 620 postcodes in SL7. 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
56.8 a year per 1,000 peopleCrimeInside the town's outline, September 2025 to August 2026. The most common: violent crime, shoplifting, anti social behaviour. Source: data.police.uk, street-level crime inside the ONS built-up area outline; people from Census 2021. A town centre with shops and pubs records more crime per resident than a suburb.
Flood zone 1FloodAt the town centre, 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 town centre, an annual mean on DEFRA's 1 km map: nitrogen dioxide 8.7 µg/m³ (2024); PM2.5 7.1 µg/m³ (2024); PM10 10.9 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
12registered nurseries and pre-schools
£85a day, the one day rate published

What Ofsted found: 1 strong or better in every area; 9 good, or expected standard; 2 not inspected yet. A typical nursery place in this region costs about £7.58 an hour for a two-year-old.

All of them: 12 in Buckinghamshire.

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, Buckinghamshire

The next dates for families applying
Secondary applications close31 Oct 2026
Reception applications open4 Nov 2026
Primary applications close15 Jan 2027

Application deadlines and offer days: Buckinghamshire · Windsor and Maidenhead.

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