Great Sampford Community Primary School
Primary · Saffron Walden · CB10 2RL
Graded inspection under the pre-November 2025 system
This is an overall-effectiveness grade from the previous inspection framework. The school has not yet had a report-card inspection.
Inspected 25 April 2023
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
79 pupils · 75% of 105 capacity
- School type
- Community school
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 7.6% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 2.3% of pupils
- SEN support
- 14.9% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 3.5% of pupils
- URN
- 114970
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.00 first-choice applications per place13 places offered · 13 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
12 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
100% of teachers stayed at the school the following year
School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Spending per pupil
Total expenditure ÷ pupils, council-maintained school finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Inspection history since 2015
- 25 April 2023: Good
- 19 September 2017: Yes - improving (good)
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
Nearby schools
- Radwinter Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
- Finchingfield St John the Baptist CofE Primary Academy
- Wimbish Primary Academy
- Thaxted Primary School
- Great Bardfield Primary School
- Steeple Bumpstead Primary School
- Wethersfield CofE VC Primary School
- Castle Camps Church of England (Controlled) Primary School