Admissions
Admissions for 2025
The determined policy for admission to community and voluntary controlled primary schools for 2024/25 is listed below:
An admission number will be published showing the maximum number of pupils that the school will admit in the Autumn Term. Our current admission number is 60. Parents will be asked to express preferences for three primary schools. Published criteria are used to decide which children should be offered the available places. In primary schools an equal preference scheme has been introduced to comply with the Schools Admission Code, whereby three parental preferences are given equal status to the preference and will be considered equally against the admissions criteria. If a school is oversubscribed, the criteria within the downloadable document will be applied.
The local authority makes the final decision on our admissions. If you wish to find out more, please contact the local authority. Our local area education office is South and their contact number is – 01772 532191 or go to their website by clicking here. They will be able to help with deferred places for Reception children.
We would love to invite you to our Open Day on Wednesday 20th November 2024. Please click on the file below for times and details.
Primary Dates
Closing Date for on-line admissions - 15th January 2025
Offers sent out to parents - 16th April 2025
To apply please go to www.lancashire.gov.uk/children-education-families/schools/apply-for-a-school-place/
Appeals - Reception Places in 2025
If you did not get your prefered choice of primary school, we shall publish the appeals process by 28th February 2025. This will include a timetable setting out how LCC will organise and hear admission appeals.
Admissions Consultation
As a school we are consulting on our Admissions Criteria for 2026-2027 to include children of staff members under siblings. We are consulting so that our criteria would be:
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.) Children whose parents are employed by the school, where the member of staff has been employed at the school for 2 years or more at the time when the application for admission is made, then
6.) 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).
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