All Hallows Catholic High School
| Postal address | Crabtree Avenue Off Central Drive Preston PR1 0LN |
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| Telephone | 01772 746121/2 |
| Headteacher | Mrs A Cooper |
| Number on roll January 2025 | 911 |
| Admission number 2026/27 | 178 |
Information relating to autumn term 2025 year 7 admissions
Total parental preferences (considered equally)
| 1st | 200 |
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| 2nd | 169 |
| 3rd | 181 |
| Total preferences received | 550 |
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.
- Looked after children and previously looked after children. A ‘previously looked after child’ is a child who was looked after but ceased to be so because he or she was adopted or became subject to a child arrangements order or special guardianship order. Included in this definition are those children who appear (to the admission authority) to have been in state care outside of England and who ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted.
- Catholic children who are resident in the parishes of St Oswald’s, Longton; St Teresa’s Penwortham; St Mary Magdalen’s, Penwortham; Our Lady & St Gerard’s Lostock Hall and Our Lady’s Tarleton.
- Other Catholic children.
- Children attending one of the following Catholic Partner Primary Schools in the parishes or former parishes named in criterion 2 above:
Our Lady & St Gerard’s, Lostock Hall St Oswald’s, Longton
St Mary Magdalen’s St Teresa’s, Penwortham - Catechumens and members of an Eastern Christian Church not in full communion with Rome.
- Children of other Christian Ecclesial Communities whose membership is evidenced by a minister of religion
- Children of other faiths whose membership is evidenced by a religious leader.
- 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 (not including the Sixth Form where there is one) 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
The distance criterion will be used as the tie breaker if there is oversubscription within any of the admission criteria; it is a straight line (radial) measure. If the Governing Body is unable to distinguish between applicants using the published criteria (e.g. siblings, those living the same distance from home to school, or families residing in the same block of flats) places will be offered via a random draw. The distance measure is a straight-line measurement (radial) between the applicant’s home address points and the address point of the school (co-ordinates provided by ordnance survey data).
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.
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