St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School, Chipping

Postal address Club Lane
Chipping
Preston PR3 2QH   
Telephone 01995 61367
Headteacher Ms M Morris
Number on roll January 2025 47
Admission number 2026/27 10

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 Roman Catholic children who are in public care and previously looked after children, including those who may have been looked after from overseas and outside of England. 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.     
  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’s. See below for the details of the catchment area.
  3. Baptised Roman Catholic children resident in the parish of St Mary’s
  4. Other baptised Roman Catholic children who will have a brother or sister attending the school.
  5. Other baptised Roman Catholic children who are resident in another parish.
  6. Other 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.   
  7. Other children with a brother or sister attending the school at the time of admission.
  8. Other children.

In the event of over-subscription in any category places will be offered first to those who live the close to school as measured by a straight line on a map using the Council's electronic mapping system – the shorter the distance the higher the priority. Measurement points will be from an internal point of the building concerned (usually the visual centre of the building).

In the event of a tied distance measurement between address points the Local Authority's system of a random draw will determine which address(es) receive the offer(s).

St Mary, Chipping

From the Longridge Fell Trigonometric Point at Spire Hill on Longridge Fell OS658411 by the tract to but excluding Barracks, then north-westerly to and by the stream by but excluding Wallbanks to its confluence with the River Hodder, upstream by the River Hodder by Doeford Bridge to the confluence with Red Syke Brook just south of Burholme Bridge and by the civil parish boundary to the cairn (OS597473) on Fair Snape Fell and southwards by the diocesan boundary across Parlick to the road at Loud Higher Bridge and by the road, Height Lane, Mill Lane, Hesketh Lane and Forty Acre Lane by Jeffrey Hill, then by a track northeasterly via Spire Hill towards Hare Hill, then by a bee-line and track northwards to the road, turning left by the road to the Longridge Fell Trigonometric Point at Spire Hill on Longridge Fell OS658411.

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