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The Cathedral Catholic Primary School, Lancaster

Postal address

Balmoral Road
Lancaster
LA1 3BT 

Telephone

01524 64686 

Headteacher

Mrs N Holt

Number on roll January 2026

195

Admission number 2027/28

30

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.  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 former parish of Cathedral and St Thomas More for whom The Cathedral Catholic Primary School is the nearest Catholic school.

  3.  Catholic children who are resident in the former parish of Cathedral and St Thomas More.

  4. Other Catholic children.

  5. 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.

  6. Catechumens and members of an Eastern Christian Church.

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

  8.  Siblings attending school at the time of admission.

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

  10. Any other children.

Where there are more applicants for the available places within a category, then the distance between the Ordinance 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. Where the cut off point is for addresses within the same building, then the single measure between address points will apply and the Local Authority’s system of a random draw will determine which address(es) receive the offer(s).

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