R A Butler Infant School
Primary · Saffron Walden · CB11 3DG
Ungraded inspection: no current grade
Ofsted's most recent visit was an ungraded inspection; its outcome was “Improved significantly”. Since September 2024 these outcomes no longer confirm a named grade, and the school's last graded inspection is too old to appear in Ofsted's current data file, so SchoolFacts shows no grade rather than guessing. Earlier grades are on the school's Ofsted report page.
Inspected 6 November 2024
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
271 pupils · 100% of 270 capacity
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 5–7
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 9.2% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 15.1% of pupils
- SEN support
- 11.1% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 3.3% of pupils
- Website
- www.rab.academy
- URN
- 136325
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.00 first-choice applications per place87 places offered · 87 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.
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)
95% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 5% moved to another state school
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, academy 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
- 5 November 2024: Improved significantly
- 7 March 2019: School remains Good
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
Nearby schools
- R A Butler Junior School
- St Thomas More Catholic Primary School, Saffron Walden
- St Mary's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
- Saffron Walden County High School
- Katherine Semar Infant School
- Katherine Semar Junior School
- Joyce Frankland Academy, Newport
- Debden Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary Academy