Carnforth High School
| Postal address | Kellet Road, Carnforth, LA5 9LS |
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| Telephone | 01524 732424 |
| Headteacher | Mr P Staniforth |
| Number on roll January 2025 | 687 |
| Admission number 2026/27 | 150 |
Information relating to autumn term 2025 year 7 admissions
Total parental preferences (considered equally)
| 1st | 105 |
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| 2nd | 170 |
| 3rd | 247 |
| Total preferences received | 522 |
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.
The Governing Body operates a system of equal preferences under which they consider all preferences equally and Local Authority notifies parents of the result. In the event that there are more applicants than places, after admitting all children with a Statement of Educational Need or Health and Care Plan naming this school, the Governing Body will allocate places using the criteria below, which are listed in order of priority:
- 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.
- Brothers or sisters currently attending the school. This applies to brothers and sisters of those children who are currently on the school roll and who will be continuing into the next academic year. Note: "brother" or "sister" includes step, half, foster, and adopted siblings living at the same address.
- Children of staff at the school. This applies to all staff, full and part-time, who are employed by this school on a permanent contract of employment with the academy in either or both of the following circumstances:
- Where the member of staff has been employed at the school for two or more years at the time at which the application for admission to the school is made, and/or
- The member of staff is recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage.
- 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. The address point is within the body of the property and usually located at its centre.
In the event that places remain unfulfilled after application of the criteria 1-4 places remaining places will be allocated according to the straight-line distance from home to school, nearer addresses having priority over more distant ones.
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 Silverdale, Yealand Redmayne, Yealand Conyers, Warton, Priest Hutton, Borwick, Arkholme with Cawood, Whittington, Burrow with Burrow, Leck, Ireby, Tunstall, Cantsfield, Carnforth, Bolton-le-Sands, Over Kellet, Nether Kellet, Halton with Aughton, Gressingham, Claughton, Hornby with Farleton, Melling with Wrayton, Wennington Roeburndale, Wray with Botton and Tatham
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.