St Clare's Catholic Primary School, Preston
| Postal address | Sharoe Green Lane Fulwood Preston PR2 9HH |
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| Telephone | 01772 787037 |
| Headteacher | Mrs R Wroblewski |
| Number on roll January 2025 | 254 |
| Admission number 2026/27 | 36 |
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.
Where there are more applications for places than the number of places available, places will be offered according to the following order of priority. (Please note points (i) and (ii) underneath the criteria list below).
- Baptised Catholic 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.
- Baptised Catholic children who are: - (a) resident in the Parish of St Clare’s, (b) are registered and attend the Parish of St Clare’s or (c) attend the Parish of St Clare’s.
- Baptised Catholic children who have a sibling in the school at the time of expected admission.
- Baptised Catholic children resident in the parish of St Mary, Fernyhalgh.
- Other baptised Catholic children.
- Non-Catholic children who are in public care or who were previously looked after.
- Other Non-Catholic Children who have a sibling in the school at the time of expected admission.
- Children of other faiths
- Other children
Within each of the categories listed above, the following provisions will be applied in the following order.
- 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.
- 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
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 astraight line will be used as the final determining factor, nearer addresses having priority overmore distant ones. This address point is within the body of the property and usually located at itscentre. 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