Lea Endowed Church of England

Postal address	Lea Road Lea Preston PR4 0RA
Telephone	01772 729880
Headteacher	Mrs C M Seagrave
Number on roll January 2024	141
Admission number 2025/26	20

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.

(a) Children in Public Care and any 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 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.
Children who have a sibling attending the school on the date of application and on the date of admission.
Children with a parent/guardian worshipping in a church in membership of Churches Together in England Evangelical Alliance or North West Gospel Partnership to a maximum of 15
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