Graded inspection · Jan 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther primary schools in Essex
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Outstanding | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Outstanding | |||
| Early years provision | Outstanding |
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About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry149 applications · 59 places offered · 59 named it first
- 2026 2.5; Essex median median 2.4
- 2025 2.4; Essex median median 2.4
- 2024 2.9; Essex median median 2.4
- 2023 2.7; Essex median median 2.4
- 2022 2.5; Essex median median 2.4
- 2021 2.6; Essex median median 2.3
- 2020 2.7; Essex median median 2.4
- 2019 2.3; Essex median median 2.5
- 2018 2.7; Essex median median 2.5
- 2017 3.0; Essex median median 2.6
- 2016 2.7; Essex median median 2.8
- 2015 3.4; Essex median median 2.7
- 2014 2.7; Essex median median 2.8; as the previous school
- This school
- Essex median
Dashed bars: as Katherine Semar Infant School (URN 114966), the previous school.
Reception applications for September 2027 close 15 January 2027, through your council
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 59 | 149 | 2.5 | 59 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2025 | 60 | 145 | 2.4 | 58 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2024 | 60 | 176 | 2.9 | 69 | 1.15 |
| Sep 2023 | 60 | 164 | 2.7 | 79 | 1.32 |
| Sep 2022 | 60 | 149 | 2.5 | 69 | 1.15 |
| Sep 2021 | 58 | 150 | 2.6 | 58 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2020 | 60 | 162 | 2.7 | 76 | 1.27 |
| Sep 2019 | 59 | 138 | 2.3 | 59 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2018 | 60 | 161 | 2.7 | 72 | 1.20 |
| Sep 2017 | 60 | 177 | 3.0 | 67 | 1.12 |
| Sep 2016 | 60 | 163 | 2.7 | 60 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2015 | 60 | 202 | 3.4 | 82 | 1.37 |
| Sep 2014 * | 60 | 159 | 2.7 | 61 | 1.02 |
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Katherine Semar Infant SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20252.5applications per place
- 0.0 km · EssexGraded · no overall grade202579%met the SATs standard
- 1.0 km · EssexRemains Good20233.3applications per place 94%met the SATs standard
- 1.2 km · EssexImproved significantly20242.0applications per place
- 1.2 km · EssexOutstanding202482%met the SATs standard
- Remains Good20233.4applications per place 65%met the SATs standard
- Good20232.8applications per place 78%met the SATs standard
- 4.2 km · EssexSome aspects not as strong20251.9applications per place 16%met the SATs standard
- 5.1 km · EssexRemains Good20221.2applications per place
School details
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- URN · DfE number
- 141574 · 881/2717
- Capacity
- 180 pupils · 180 on roll
- Free school meals
- 9.4% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 December 2014
- Replaced
- Katherine Semar Infant School (URN 114966)
- Address
- Ross Close, Saffron Walden, CB11 4DU
- Local authority
- Essex · Uttlesford
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources