Arkholme Church of England Primary School

Postal address	Arkholme Carnforth LA6 1AU
Telephone	015242 21418
Headteacher	Mrs J Ingram
Number on roll January 2024	102
Admission number 2025/26	14

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 at and use the supplementary information form available from the school.

1. (a) Looked after children and previously looked after children. This criteria also includes looked after children and all previously looked after 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. 
   (b) Children with special medical or social circumstances affecting the child where these needs can only be met at this school.
2. Children whose parents live within the civil parishes of Arkholme, Gressingham and Whittington, including the extended catchment, as marked on a map in the school office.
   (a) Relationship as brother or sister to a pupil already attending the school at the time of application and admission.
   (b) Children with a parent/guardian worshipping at a church which is in full membership of Churches Together in England or the Evangelical Alliance.
   (c) Any other children.   
3. Children whose parents live outside the parishes
   (a) Children who have a sibling attending the school on the date of application and on the date of admission.
   (b) Children with a parent/guardian who worships at a church which is in full membership of Churches Together in England or the Evangelical Alliance.
   (c) Other children.

Where there are more applicants for the available places within a category, then 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. Where two addresses have the same distance, or the cut-off point is for addresses within the same building, then 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