John Ray Infant School

Academy converter·Infant school Braintree, Essex·CM7 1HL

School type

Infant school

Ages 2–7

Key Stage 2 performance

John Ray Infant School is an infant school for pupils aged 2–7. Pupils move on to a separate junior or middle school before Year 6, so the school does not enter pupils for the Key Stage 2 SATs and has no KS2 results to publish.

This applies to every infant school in England — it does not mean data is missing. Ofsted judgements and school information are shown below.

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first

99%

89 first choices, 90 places

First choices per place

0.99

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

153

any preference, for 90 places

Applications from another council area

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for John Ray Infant School yet. Essex does publish allocation figures and we are working through them council by council — we only show a distance once we have found it in the council’s own document.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range: 2–7
Pupils on roll: 335
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

23.8%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

10.1%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

15.8%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

2.4%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

20.1

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£7,494

Typical primary: £6,960

“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means

Nearby primary schools

John Ray Junior School Braintree · 0.0 mi 47.3 St Michael's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School Braintree · 0.8 mi 44.3 Notley Green Primary School Braintree · 1.0 mi 51.1 St Francis Catholic Primary School, Braintree Braintree · 1.1 mi 73.8 White Court School Braintree · 1.2 mi 48.6 John Bunyan Primary School and Nursery Braintree · 1.2 mi 36.9 Beckers Green Primary School Braintree · 1.3 mi 51.8 Great Bradfords Junior School Braintree · 1.3 mi 41.1

Location

Official sources

Latest Ofsted report reports.ofsted.gov.uk DfE Compare School Performance compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk GIAS school details get-information-schools.service.gov.uk

John Ray Infant School at a glance

Located in Braintree, Essex, John Ray Infant School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 335 pupils aged 2 to 7.

99% of the families who made John Ray Infant School their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, even though the school made at least as many offers as it had first choices - the rest withdrew, moved or fell outside a priority group. There are about 20.1 pupils per teacher. John Ray Infant School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.