Admissions
Lancashire County Council are our Admissions Authority and deal with all admissions. Our over subscribed criteria is:
1.) 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, then
2.) Children for whom the Local Authority accepts that there are exceptional medical social or welfare reasons which are directly relevant to the school concerned below, then
3.) Children eligible for Services Premium, then
4.) Children with older brothers and sisters attending the school when the younger child will start, then
5.) Remaining places are allocated according to where a child lives. Those living nearest to the preferred school by a straight line (radial) measure will have priority, below.
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 Local Authority is unable to distinguish between applicants using the published criteria (eg. 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).
How we allocate the children in a double form entry school
Our EYFS staff visit the Nurseries to learn about your amazing children. They are grouped thinking about relationships from Nursery, SEND needs, gender, age so that we have as far as possible 2 balanced classes. If we have twins we do split them into different classes, this allows them to become individual children. In EYFS though they do mix a lot in the afternoons.
Sometimes we do find that over the years, the classes become unbalanced and we do need to move children across them. In the past we have rearranged classes during their Reception Year or at the end of Year 2.
In Year Admission Information
In year admission applications
Appeals throughout the year
Please click on the line below to access LCC e-form for appeals throughout the year