Castle View Primary Academy, Lancaster
| Postal address | Keswick Road Lancaster LA1 3LE |
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| Telephone | 01524 67880 |
| Headteacher | Ms C Bright |
| Number on roll January 2024 | 132 |
| Admission number 2025/26 | 30 |
Information relating to autumn term 2024 reception admissions
Total parental preferences (considered equally)
| 1st | 9 |
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| 2nd | 6 |
| 3rd | 7 |
| Total preferences received | 22 |
Summary of policy
When we are oversubscribed on parental preferences, then the following priorities apply in order:
- 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
- Children for whom the Academy accepts that there are exceptional medical social or welfare reasons which are directly relevant to the school concerned, then
- Children with older brothers and sisters attending the school when the younger child will start, then
- 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.
Tie breaker:
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 Governors are 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).