Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, Chorley

Postal address Brooke Street
Chorley PR6 0LB  
Telephone 01257 262659
Headteacher Mr B Broderick
Number on roll January 2025 176
Admission number 2026/27 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.

Oversubscription Criteria

Where there are more applications for places than the number of places available, places will be offered according to the following order of priority.

  1. Looked after children and previously looked after children.
  2. Catholic children who are resident in the parish Sacred Heart, Chorley.
  3. Other Catholic children.
  4. Catechumens in the Catholic Church and members of an Eastern Christian Church not in full communion with Rome
  5. Children of other Christian Ecclesial Communities whose membership is evidenced by a minister of religion.
  6. Children of other faiths whose membership is evidenced by a religious leader.
  7. Any other children.

Within each of the categories listed above, the following provisions will be applied in the following order.

(i) Where evidence is provided at the time of application of an exceptional social, medical or pastoral need of the child which can most appropriately be met at this school, the application will be placed at the top of the category in which the application is made. 

(ii) The attendance of a brother or sister at the school at the time of enrolment will increase the priority of an application within each category so that the application will be placed at the top of the category in which the application is made after children in (i) above.

Tie Break Priority will be given to children living closest to the school determined by the shortest distance. Distances are calculated 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). In the event of distances being the same for two or more children where this would determine the last place to be allocated, random allocation will be carried out and supervised by a person independent of the school. All the names will be entered into a hat and the required number of names will be drawn out. This should then be formally minuted for future reference

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