St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School, Burnley

Postal address Holcombe Drive
Burnley
BB10 4BH
Telephone 01282 427546
Headteacher Mr I S Jones
Number on roll January 2023 207
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 and Baptised Catholic previously Looked After Children. This criteria also includes looked after children and all previously looked after children who appear (to the 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. Baptised Roman Catholic children who will have a brother or sister attending the school at the time of admission and resident in the parish of St. Mary of the Assumption, Burnley.
  3. Baptised Roman Catholic children resident in the parish of St. Mary of the Assumption, Burnley.
  4. Looked After Children and previously Looked After Children. This criteria also includes looked after children and all previously looked after children who appear (to the admission authority) to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted.
  5. Other children with a brother or sister attending the school at the time of admission.
  6. Other baptised Roman Catholic children who are resident in another parish.
  7. Other children.

If in any category there are more applications than places available, priority will be given on the basis of proximity to the school. The distance between the Ordinance Survey Address Points for the school and the home measured in a straight line will be used as the final determining factor (with 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 authorities system of a random draw will determine which addresses will receive the offers. 

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