Saint Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School, Sabden

Postal address Watt Street
Sabden
Clitheroe
BB7 9ED
Telephone 01282 771009
Executive Headteacher Miss C Halstead
Number on roll January 2023 68
Admission number 2024/25 12

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.

  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.
  2. Baptised Catholic children who have a sibling in the school at the time of admission.
  3. Baptised Roman Catholic children resident in the former parish of St Mary Queen of Peace (Sabden), the former parish of St Philip the Apostle (Padiham) and the parish of English Martyrs’ (Whalley).
  4. Other children who have a sibling in the school at the time of admission.
  5. Other baptised Roman Catholic children.
  6. All remaining applicants. 

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

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