Clitheroe Edisford Primary

Postal address Edisford Road
Clitheroe
BB7 2LN   
Telephone 01200 422239 
Headteacher Mr R F Pye 
Number on roll January 2023 220
Admission number 2024/25 30

Information relating to autumn term 2023 reception admissions

Total parental preferences (considered equally)

1st 26
2nd 15
3rd 32
Total preferences received 73

Summary of policy

This is a community school. Please see the full admission details on our website - admissions criteria for community and voluntary controlled primary schools.

To apply for a place at this school, please apply online.

This school has a Geographical Priority Area (GPA):

Those who are resident in the Low Moor area (bordered by Edisford Road to the south and the River Ribble to the west and north) – as far as houses on and adjacent to Riverside and Low Moor Farm.

Admission arrangements – Allocation of places within the GPA

When the school is over-subscribed on parental preferences, the following priorities apply in order:

  1. Looked after children or a child who was previously looked after, but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, child arrangement order, or special guardianship order or those children who appear to the school to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted, then
  2. Children for whom the Local Authority accepts that there are exceptional medical, social or welfare reasons which are directly relevant to the school concerned, then
  3. Children living within the school’s geographical priority area with older brothers or sisters attending the school when the younger child will start, then. 
  4. Children living within the school’s geographical priority area, then
  5. Children living outside the school’s geographical priority area with older brothers or sisters still attending the school when the younger child will start, then
  6. Children living outside the school’s Geographical Priority Area.

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 the Local Authority is unable to distinguish between applicants using the published criteria (eg. 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).