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Old Buckenham Primary School and Nursery is a primary school located in Attleborough, Norfolk. The school caters for boys and girls aged 2 to 11 and currently has 196 pupils on roll, with a capacity of 210. It is part of the SAPIENTIA EDUCATION TRUST. The school is led by Mrs Helen Mitchell.

Key facts

URN: 143135
Type: Academy sponsor led
Phase: Primary
Ages: 2 to 11
Gender: Mixed
Sixth form: Does not have a sixth form
Nursery: Has Nursery Classes
Local authority: Norfolk
Constituency: Mid Norfolk
Setting: Smaller rural: Nearer to a major town or city
Opened: 2016

Governing body

No governance records are published for this school in the DfE data we hold.

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Ofsted

Ungraded inspectionInspected May 2024. No grade given.

Ofsted carried out an ungraded inspection. These inspections give no grade and no key judgements, so none is shown here. Read the report itself for what inspectors found.

Last graded inspection: Good (6 Feb 2019). Ofsted has not graded the school since; its latest visit, in May 2024, was ungraded.

Inspection history

Date	Outcome
May 2024	Ungraded inspection (no grade given)
06/02/2019	Good
23/02/2016	Good

Ofsted management information, as at 30 September 2026, via WhatSchool: Ofsted may have published a newer report since. Since September 2024 Ofsted no longer gives a single overall grade at new inspections, so a one-word grade, where shown, belongs to the inspection date beside it. Ungraded inspections give no grade and are dated by month only. Inspections from September 2024 to November 2025 grade key judgements; report cards (from November 2025) grade evaluation areas.

Ofsted reports for this school

Academy trust

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Sapientia Education Trust runs 22 schools, including this one.

Old Buckenham High SchoolSecondary · Attleborough · Ofsted: Ungraded inspection Mar 2023; last graded Good (Oct 2015, previous school)
Rosecroft Primary SchoolPrimary · Attleborough · Ofsted: Requires improvement, Apr 2024. This inspection was of the previous school, before it became an academy.
Attleborough Primary SchoolPrimary · Attleborough · Ofsted: No overall grade (Oct 2024): Good in 1 key judgement, Requires improvement in 3; early years provision Good; safeguarding effective. This inspection was of the previous school, before it became an academy.
Attleborough AcademySecondary · Attleborough · Ofsted: Report card (Mar 2026): Strong standard in 4 areas, Expected standard in 3; safeguarding standards met
Wymondham CollegeSecondary · Wymondham · Ofsted: Outstanding, Oct 2023
Wymondham College Prep SchoolPrimary · Wymondham · Ofsted: Outstanding, Jun 2023

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