Hambleton Primary Academy
| Postal address | Church Lane Hambleton Poulton-le-Fylde FY6 9BZ |
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| Telephone | 01253 700331 |
| Headteacher | Mrs H Wood |
| Number on roll January 2024 | 252 |
| Admission number 2025/26 | 30 |
Summary of policy
This is an Academy – please contact the Academy for full admission details. For this school, please apply online.
Where the number of applications for admission is greater than the published admission number, applications will be considered against the criteria set out below. After the admission of students with statements of Special Educational Needs where the Hambleton Primary Academy is named on the statement, the criteria will be applied in the order in which they are set out below:
- 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.
- Medical, Social or Welfare reasons. Where there are exceptional serious, sensitive and compelling circumstances that are directly relevant to the academy, priority may be given. Professional evidence to demonstrate exceptional or compelling reasons why only this academy can cater for a particular child’s needs on any of these grounds must be provided with the application. The evidence must set out the reasons and level of risk to the child or family and why the academy is the only suitable school; plus any difficulties which would arise if the child had to attend an alternative school.
It should be noted that all schools can make provision for special educational needs, and can also manage common conditions e.g. asthma, epilepsy and diabetes.
Only exceptional reasons directly relevant to the academy will be considered. Priority will be given to the child only if the submitted evidence unequivocally proves the circumstances and demonstrates why any alternative school would be unsuitable. Parents are responsible for providing the evidence.
- Children who will have a sibling in attendance at Hambleton Primary Academy at the time of transfer.
- The children of staff who have been employed by Hambleton Primary Academy Trust for two or more years, or who meet a skills shortage.
- Other pupils with priority given to those that live nearest to Hambleton Primary Academy. The measurement will be taken in a straight line from the centre point of the residence to the centre point of the Academy, using the Lancashire Local Authority’s geographical information system (GIS).
Tie Breaker
Where there is oversubscription within any of the determined criteria, the priority for places will be decided in a straight-line distance measure (Centre point of the residence to the centre point of the Academy), using the local authority's measuring system. The nearest to the Academy will have priority for admission.