Admissions

Please find the admission criteria listed below for your convenience. Application forms are readily available from our school Admissions Officer, Mrs Chester. She can be contacted at the school on extension 223 if you wish to discuss your child’s needs in detail prior to admission.

To see our full Admissions Policy, including information regarding late applications for admission, waiting lists, non-routine admissions, appeals and withdrawal of places please see below.

Admissions

Published Admission Number = 160 pupils

  1. Looked After Children and previously Looked After Children.
  2. Baptised Catholic children from the following Catholic partner primary schools: St. Mary’s & St. Benedict’s, Bamber Bridge; Our Lady & St. Gerard’s, Lostock Hall; St. Patrick’s Walton le Dale; St. Joseph’s, Brindle; St. Bede’s, Clayton Green.
  3. Baptised Catholic children living in the designated parishes named below: Brownedge St. Mary’s, Bamber Bridge; Our Lady & St. Gerard’s, Lostock Hall; Our Lady & St. Patrick’s Walton le Dale; St. Joseph’s, Brindle; St. Bede’s, Clayton Green; and St. Mary’s, Samlesbury.
  4. Baptised Catholic children who have a brother or sister at the school at the time of likely admission. This includes full, half or step-brothers and sisters, foster brothers and sisters and children living at the same address and part of the same family unit.
  5. Baptised Catholic children living in other parishes.
  6. Children who are other than Catholic who have a brother or sister at the school at the time of likely admission. This includes full, half or step-brothers and sisters, foster brothers and sisters and children living at the same address and part of the same family unit.
  7. Other children living in the designated parishes and attending a Catholic primary school in the designated parish.
  8. Children of staff who have been employed by the school for two or more years at the time at which the application for admission is made.
  9. Children who are Baptised in other Christian denominations or who can provide evidence of membership of a faith community.
  10. Other Children.

Where  there  are  more  applicants  for  the  available  places  with  a  category,  then  the distance  between  the  Ordnance Survey  address  points  for  the  school  and the  home address, measured in a straight line, will be used as the final determining factor nearer the addresses  having  priority  over more  distant ones.  This  address  point  is  within  the body  of  the  property  and  usually  located  at  its  centre. Where  the  cut off  point  for  the addresses  within  the  same  building,  then  the  single  measure  between  address  points will  apply  and  the Local  Authority’s  system  of  a  random  draw  will  determine  which address(es) receive the offer(s).

 

There are occasions when pupils wish to join us during the school year. Please click here for more details on this. 

 

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