Leyland Methodist (Infants)
| Postal address | Canberra Road Leyland Preston PR25 3ET |
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| Telephone | 01772 431914 |
| Executive Headteacher | Mrs K A Melling |
| Number on roll January 2024 | 271 |
| Admission number 2025/26 | 70 |
Summary of policy
This is an academy – please contact the academy 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.
When the Academy is oversubscribed, after the admission of pupils with Education Health and Care Plans naming the Academy, priority for admission will be applied by the Trust
- 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 then
- Children for whom the governors accepts that there are exceptional medical, social or welfare reasons which are directly relevant to the school concerned.
- Children eligible for Services Premium, then,
- Children living within the school’s geographical priority area with older brothers or sisters attending the school when the younger child will start, then
- Children living within the school’s geographical priority area, then
- Children living outside the school’s geographical priority area with older brothers or sisters still attending the school when the younger child will start then
- Children living outside the school’s Geographical Priority Area below.
The distance criterion will be used as the tie breaker if there is oversubscription within any of the admission criteria; it is a straight line (radial) measure. If the Governors unable to distinguish between applicants using the published criteria (eg. siblings, those living the same distance from home to school, or families residing in the same block of flats) places will be offered via a random draw. The distance measure is a straight line measurement (radial) between the applicant’s home address points and the address point of the school (co-ordinates provided by ordnance survey data).
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