Ellel St John the Evangelist C of E Primary School

Postal address	Chapel Street Galgate Lancaster LA2 0JS
Telephone	01524 751320
Headteacher	Mrs J Fitzgerald
Number on roll January 2024	202
Admission number 2025/26	30

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. (a) Children in public care and those who were previously looked after. 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 who have a sibling attending the school on the date of application and on the date of admission.
3. Children whose parents live within the ecclesiastical parish of Ellel.
   (a) Parents who worship in a church in full membership of Churches Together in England or Evangelical Alliance.
   (b) other children.
4. Children of staff who have been employed in the school for the whole of the two years prior to the closing date for applications. This applies to all staff, full and part-time, who are employed by the governing body
5. Children whose parents live outside the parish.
   (a) Children with a parent/guardian attending worship at a church in full membership of Churches Together in England or Evangelical Alliance.
   (b) 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