Holy Family Catholic Primary School, Ingol

Postal address	59 Whitby Avenue Ingol Preston PR2 3YP
Telephone	01772 727471
Headteacher	Mrs J Westray
Number on roll January 2024	203
Admission number 2025/26	25

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. Baptised Catholic 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. Baptised Catholic Children with a specific educational, medical, social or emotional need which is relevant to the school and whose application is supported in writing by an appropriate authority (e.g. doctor or social worker).
3. Baptised Catholic siblings of children at the school who will still be on the school roll at the time of admission.
4. Baptised Catholic Children living within the Parish of Holy Family.
5. Other Baptised Catholic Children.
6.  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.
7. Other Children with a specific educational, medical, social or emotional need which is relevant to the school and whose application is supported in writing by an appropriate authority (e.g. doctor or social worker).
8. Other siblings of children at the school who will still be on the school roll at the time of admission
9. Other Children

If, within any category, there are more applicants than places available priority will be given on the basis of proximity to the school.

The distance measure is a straight line (radial) measure from the centre of the building that is the applicant’s home address to the centre of school building. Distances are measured using the Councils’ Geographic Information System

In the event of a tied distance measurement between address points 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