The paper deals with approximative and form-retaining properties of the local parabolic splines of the form, where B 2 is a normalized parabolic spline with the uniform nodes and functionals y j = y j (f ) are given for an arbitrary function f defined on R by means of the equalitiesOn the class W 2 ∞ of functions under 0 < h 1 ≤ 2h, the approximation error value is calculated exactly for the case of approximation by such splines in the uniform metrics.