Cawthorne's Endowed School, Abbeystead

Postal address Abbeystead
Lancaster
LA2 9BQ
Telephone 01524 791565
Headteacher Mr P Corbett
Number on roll January 2024 36
Admission number 2025/26 10

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 and use the supplementary information form available from the school.

  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. Children/families with special, medical or other circumstances.
  3. Children who live in the geographical Parish of Over Wyresdale.
  4. Children who have a brother or sister already attending the school at the time of the request.
  5. Places are awarded by reference to distance from home to the school.

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