Education
Perhaps the most famous school in the area is Eton College, founded by Henry VI during one of his bouts of sanity, or insanity........see Henry on the weird history section of Windsorsoup. There is an Eton T-shirt shop where you can buy a "I went to Eton College T-shirt and matching baseball cap, just like the boys wear. Local children do not tend to go to Eton. Partly because half of them tend to be girls. However most boys do not go either. This is not because Eton is expensive which it is. It is because Eton College boys are useless at map reading and therefore cannot find their way home at the end of the school day. So they have to sleep in barracks. Otherwise they get lost. Apparently there were two Princes who had to stay there all the time because they could not find their way straight up Eton High Street and over the bridge to their Granny's huge house or Windsor Castle as it is locally known.
The two main upper schools in Windsor are Windsor Boys School and Windsor Girls School. There is no examination for entry. There is no need. Usually you can tell whether they are boys or girls by the age of thirteen. Since there is no examination the schools take their word for it. Unlike Eton where the boys do a lot of examining in the barracks, presumably to find out if any girls got in by mistake. One good link to find out about an area is Homesight.co.uk, which tell you about property taxes, crime rates etc. On education in Windsor it is plain wrong. It refers to Primary and Secondary schools in Windsor...there are none. Unlike most of the UK Windsor has retained a three-tier system, which really annoys the bureaucrats at the Town Hall in Maidenhead. Next door and a million miles away.

They tried to make Windsor conform, to howls of protest some years ago.
After nursery school children in Windsor go to First schools at age five. They are small and by and large excellent, as are the schools. They stay at these until they are nine, then go to a middle school until thirteen, from whence to the Upper School.
We also have East Berks College here in Windsor, excellent website lousy college Just won the worst ofsted inspection of the year award. .More intersested in property development

Education; Thought for the day
It is strange to think that in Austria in the 1930's a little old former schoolmistress might have gone to the newsreel for the first time.
" Mein Gott, " she might have said. " There's little Adolf. I'd recognise that cute little moustache anywhere. Funny little boy, always putting his hand up even when I had not asked a question, (she would have said qvestion, makes it more realistic.)
I had to punish him. Always putting his hat with a feather on it on other boy's pegs. He would have taken over the whole cloakroom." A Miss Finklestein, what did you do?
And her neighbour in the back stalls, Signora Bellapasta, the ex-school nurse said, " Yes, he's with my little Benito. My! He has put on weight! He was a pasty little boy. Always playing with his model trains. I had to dose him with castor oil once."
Behind every great villain there must have been a teacher.