St John's Catholic Primary School Poulton-le-Fylde

Postal address Breck Road
Poulton-le-Fylde FY6 7HT  
Telephone 01253 883690
Headteacher Ms G Almond
Number on roll January 2023 208
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.

  1. Baptised Catholic looked after children who were 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 will have a sibling attending school at the time of admission and resident in the parishes of St John’s Poulton-le-Fylde, English Martyrs Poulton-le-Fylde and St Francis, Hambleton.
  3. Baptised Catholic children who are resident in the parishes of St John’s Poulton-le-Fylde, English Martyrs Poulton-le-Fylde and St Francis, Hambleton.
  4. Baptised Catholic children who will have a sibling attending the school at the time of admission and are resident in another parish.
  5. Other Baptised Catholic children.
  6. Other looked after children or children who were 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 bas a result of being adopted.
  7. Other children with a sibling attending school at the time of admission.
  8. Children of staff employed at St John's Catholic Primary School may be conferred priority where the member of staff has been employed at the school for two or more years at the time the application is made or the member of staff is recruited to fill a vacant post where there is a demonstrable skills shortage.
  9. Other children.

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 the cut off point is for 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).