Corpus Christi Catholic High School
| Postal address | St Vincent's Road Fulwood Preston PR2 8QY |
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| Telephone | 01772 716912 |
| Headteacher | Mr J Hankin |
| Number on roll January 2025 | 809 |
| Admission number 2026/27 | 160 |
Information relating to autumn term 2025 year 7 admissions
Total parental preferences (considered equally)
| 1st | 297 |
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| 2nd | 222 |
| 3rd | 299 |
| Total preferences received | 918 |
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.
- 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.
- Catholic children who attend a feeder Catholic primary school, namely, The Blessed Sacrament, English Martyrs’, St Clare’s, St Gregory’s or St Maria Goretti’s.
- Other Catholic children having a brother or sister already at the school in the September of the year of admission.
- Other Catholic children.
- 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.
- The children of staff employed at the school for two or more years, or who have been recruited to meet a school skills shortage.
- Children of other Christian denominations and children of other faiths whose membership is evidenced by a minister of religion or other religious leader, having a brother or sister already at the school in the September of the year of admission.
- Children of other Christian denominations and children of other faiths whose membership is evidenced by a minister of religion or other religious leader.
- Any other children having a brother or sister already at the school in the September of the year of admission.
- Any other children who attend feeder primary schools.
- All other children.
Within each of the categories listed above, the following provision will be applied:
Where evidence is provided at the time of application of an exceptional social, medical or pastoral need of the child which can be most appropriately met at this school, the application will be placed at the top of the category in which the application is made .
In the event of applications exceeding the number of places in any of the above categories, the following tie-breaker will apply :
If there are more children in any of the individual categories than there are places remaining, then those pupils who live nearest to the school by a straight line (radial) measure, will have priority. The distance is measured using a geographical information system and the measurement is taken from the centre point of the property to the centre point of the school.
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).
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