Central Lancaster High School

Postal address

Crag Road
Lancaster
LA1 3LS   

Telephone 01524 32636
Headteacher Mr D Cowper
Number on roll January 2023 592
Admission number 2024/25 150

Information relating to autumn term 2023 year 7 admissions

Total parental preferences (considered equally)

1st 79
2nd

109

3rd 135
Total preferences received 323

Summary of policy

This is an academy – please contact the academy 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 and those who have been previously looked after; and those adopted from overseas.
  2. Children for whom the Governors accept that there are exceptional medical, social or welfare reasons which are directly relevant to the school concerned.
  3. Children whose parents are employed by the school, where the member of staff has been employed at the school for two years or more at the time when the application for admission is made or where he/she has been recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage
  4. Children living within the school’s geographical priority area with older brothers or sisters attending the school when the younger child will start
  5. Children living within the school’s geographical priority area
  6. Children living outside the school’s geographical priority area with older brothers or sisters still attending the school when the younger child will start
  7. Children living outside the school’s geographical priority area

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.

Geographical priority area

Parishes of Thurnham, Lancaster (part*), Scotforth, Quernmore, Ellel, Caton with Littledale, Cockerham and Over Wyresdale

*Up to the railway and river boundaries between Slyne with Hest and Oxcliffe parishes.

Also a small area of the Lancaster Parish to be shared with Morecambe Bay Academy. This is the area north of the River Lune (Scale Hall, Ryelands; Hare Runs; Beaumont and Skerton). 

Transport

Please see the main school admissions section.

Parents in any doubt over the distance between home and school for the provision of transport are asked to check with their local area education office. This may be particularly relevant if you live close to a county border.