Maharishi Free School
| Postal address | Cobbs Brow Lane Lathom Ormskirk L40 6JJ |
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| Telephone | 01695 729912 |
| Headteacher | Mrs L Edwards |
| Number on roll January 2024 | 230 |
| Admission number 2025/26 | 20 |
Information relating to autumn term 2023 reception admissions
Total parental preferences (considered equally)
| 1st | 17 |
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| 2nd | 7 |
| 3rd | 8 |
| Total preferences received | 32 |
Initial allocation under each criterion:
Summary of policy
This is a free 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.
Where applications for admission exceed the number of places available, the School Governing Body will apply the following criteria in the order set out below, to decide which children to admit:
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 .
b) Where the applicant is considered a sibling of a child enrolled at the School at the time of the application (sibling, half sibling, adopted sibling or foster sibling, as long as they are living with the same family at the same permanent address).
c) Children of any staff permanently employed at in either or both of the following circumstances:
i) Where the member of staff has been employed at the School for two or more years at the time at which the application for admission to the school is made, and/or
ii) The member of staff is recruited to fill a vacant post in the School for which there is demonstrable skill shortage for the requirements of the post.
d) Where having applied the above criteria and allocated places to the children satisfying those criteria there remain places available, 50% (rounded up) of the places remaining will be allocated in order of proximity of the child’s permanent address to the School’s address, with the most proximate first. The measurement used will be the same as the Local Authority (Lancashire) uses for its Community Schools, viz a straight line (radial) measure from the centre of the pupil’s home to the centre of the school building where the relevant year-group to which the child is being admitted is usually taught,. The remaining 50% of places (rounded down) will be allocated by a random draw.
Note:
- The distance and random draw allocation measures in d) will be used as a tie-breaker for earlier criteria should any of those criteria be oversubscribed.
- Tied distances (eg twins and other multiple birth children, or the same block of flats) are decided by random draw.