Alston Lane Catholic Primary School and Nursery

Postal address Preston Road
Longridge
Preston PR3 3BJ   
Telephone 01772 783661
Headteacher Mr M FitzGibbon
Number on roll January 2024 243
Admission number 2025/26 30

Summary of policy

Converting to an Academy from 1st August 2024 – 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.

If the number of applications exceeds the planned admission number, places will be allocated in the following order of priority:

  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
  2. Catholic children who live in the parish and whose parents worship at Our Lady and St Michael’s Church
  3. Catholic children, who live in the parish, whose parents worship in other Catholic parishes; Catholic children, living outside the parish, whose parents worship at Our Lady and St Michael’s Church
  4. Siblings of children who are in the school at the time of enrolment.     
  5. Other Catholic children
  6. Children eligible for early years pupil premium, the pupil premium or the service premium who attend Alston Lane Nursery.
  7. Baptised children of other Christian denominations whose membership is confirmed by a Minister of Religion
  8. Children of other faiths whose membership is evidenced by a religious leader.
  9. Other children.        

In the event of the number of oversubscription in any of the above criteria, places will be allocated according to the following tie-breaker criterion: Applicants living nearest to the school.

The distance measure is a straight line (radial) measure from the centre of the building that is the applicant’s home address to the centre of the school building. Distances are measured using the council’s Geographic Measuring System. If the Governing body is unable to distinguish between applicants in any of the oversubscription criteria using this tie breaker (e.g. applicants in the same block of flats) places will be offered via a random draw.

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