Accrington Peel Park Primary School
| Postal address | Alice Street Accrington BB5 6QR |
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| Telephone | 01254 231583 |
| Headteacher | Mr David Waites |
| Number on roll January 2024 | 620 |
| Admission number 2025/26 | 90 |
Summary of policy
This is a foundation 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.
In the event of oversubscription places will be offered first to those living in the priority admission area using the following criteria:
- 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 result of being adopted.
- Children with social, medical welfare reasons. Professional supporting evidence from e.g. A doctor, psychologist, social worker is essential if admission is to be made under this criteria. Such evidence must set out the particular reasons why the school in question is the most suitable school and the difficulties which would be caused if the child had to attend another school.
- Children who have parents working at the school. Where the member of staff has been employed at the school for two years or more at the time when the application for admission is made or where he/she has been recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage
- Children who have a sibling at the school. Children without siblings residing within the defined admissions area
- Other pupils from outside the defined admission area
Tie-breaker
Where there are more applications than places available within a category, priority will be given on the bases of proximity to the school. The distance between the Ordnance 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. 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). In the case of flats, the flat nearest the ground floor will be deemed the nearest. Apartments in the same block will be treated equally with the measurement taken to the main entrance of the block. If after applying the distance tie-breaker there are more applications than places in the apartment block furthest away, a further tie-breaker of random allocation will be used for the applications in this block.
Our priority admission area comprises of: Accrington, Huncoat, Baxenden, Clayton-Le-Moors, Church and Oswaldtwistle.
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