Lord Street Primary School
| Postal address | Lord Street Colne BB8 9AR |
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| Telephone | 01282 865597 |
| Headteacher | Mrs H Walsh |
| Number on roll January 2024 | 355 |
| Admission number 2025/26 | 60 |
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.
Lord Street Primary School is a school serving its local community. This is reflected in its admissions policy.
Children will be admitted to the school in the following priority order:
a)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
b) Children for whom the Board of Trustees accepts that there are exceptional medical, social or welfare reasons which are directly relevant to the school concerned, then
c) Children with older brothers and sisters attending the school when the younger child will start, then
d) Children of current employees of the school who have had a permanent contract for at least two years prior to the admissions deadline or with immediate effect if the member of staff is recruited to fill a post for which there is a demonstrable skills shortage, then
e) Remaining places are allocated to where a child lives. Those living nearest to the preferred school by a straight line (radial) measure will have priority.
Tie-breaker
The distance criterion which will be used as the tie breaker if there is oversubscription within any of the admission criteria is a straight line (radial) measure. If the Board of Trustees is unable to distinguish between applicants using the published criteria (e.g. twins or same block of flats) places will be offered via a random draw.
The distance measure is a straight line (radial) measure centre of building (home) to centre of building (school).