Accrington St Anne's and St Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School

Postal address Sandy Lane
Accrington
BB5 2AN
Telephone 01254 233019
Headteacher Vacancy
Number on roll January 2023 169
Admission number 2024/25 30

Summary of policy

This is a Voluntary Aided school – please contact the school for full admission details. To apply for a place at this school, please apply online and use the supplementary information form available from the school.

OVERSUBSCRIPTION CRITERIA

Where an Academy has more applications than places available the Academy local governing body will draw up a ranked list based on the criteria listed below and will allocate places accordingly.

  1. A baptised Catholic ‘looked after child' or a baptised Catholic child who was previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, child arrangements or special guardianship order, including those who appear to this admission authority to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted.
  2. Other Baptised Catholic children who have a sibling in the school at the time of admission.
  3. Baptised Catholic children resident in the parishes of St Anne's and St Joseph's.
  4. Other Baptised Catholic children.
  5. A 'looked after child' or a child who was previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, child arrangements or special guardianship order, including those who appear to this admission authority to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted.
  6. Other children who have a sibling in the school at the time of admission.
  7. All remaining applicants.

 

TIE-BREAKER

The distance criterion will be used as the tie breaker if there is oversubscription within any of the admission criteria; it is a straight line (radial) measure.

If Governors are unable to distinguish between applicants using the published criteria (e.g., Siblings, those living the same distance from home to school, or families residing in the same block of flats) places will be offered via a random draw.

The distance measure is a straight-line measurement (radial) between the applicant’s home address points and the address point of the school (co-ordinates provided by ordnance survey data).

Definitions

Definitions of the following terms are available and apply except where individual arrangements spell out a different definition.

  • Distance
  • Parents / family members
  • Medical/social/welfare
  • Looked after children and previously looked after children