St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Fleetwood

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.

Where there are more applications for places than the number of places available, places will be offered according to the following order of priority.

1. Catholic looked after and previously looked after children, including those children who appear (to the admission authority) to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted.

2. Catholic children who are resident in the parish of St Mary’s.

3. Other Catholic children.

4. Other looked after and previously looked after children, including those children who appear (to the admission authority) to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted.

5. Catechumens and members of an Eastern Christian Church.

6. Children of other Christian denominations whose membership is evidenced by a minister of religion.

7. Children of other faiths whose membership is evidenced by a religious leader.

8. 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 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.

If, within any category, there are more applicants than places available priority will be given to those living nearest to the school measured by a straight line (radial) measure from the centre of the building that is the applicant's home address to the centre of school building. Distances are measured using the Council's Geographic Information System. If measured distance to the school cannot distinguish applications (from applicants who live in the same building for example) then a random draw would be used to resolve the matter.

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