Our Lady and St Edward's Catholic, Preston
| Postal address | Lightfoot Lane Fulwood Preston PR2 3LP |
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| Telephone | 01772 862305 |
| Headteacher | Mrs K Woods |
| Number on roll January 2024 | 211 |
| Admission number 2025/26 | 30 |
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.
Where there are more applications for places than the number of places available, places will be offered according to the following order of priority.
1. Catholic looked after and previously looked after children. Included in this definition are those children who appear (to the admission authority) to have been in state care outside of England and who ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted.
2. Baptised Catholic children who live in Our Lady & St Edward’s parish and who will have a sibling in school at the time of admission.
3. Baptised Catholic children who live in the parish of Our Lady and St Edward’s
4. Other baptised Catholic children with a sibling in school at the time of admission
5. Other Catholic children.
6. Other looked after and previously looked after children. Included in this definition are those children who appear (to the admission authority) to have been in state care outside of England and who ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted.
7. Siblings of children who are in the school at the time of admission.
8. Catechumens and members of an Eastern Christian Church.
9. Children of other Christian denominations whose membership is evidenced by a minister of religion.
10. Children of other faiths whose membership is evidenced by a religious leader.
11. Any other children.
Within each of the categories listed above, the following provisions will be applied in the following order.
Where evidence is provided at the time of application of an exceptional social, medical or pastoral need of the child which can most appropriately be met at this school, the application will be placed at the top of the category in which the application is made.
The attendance of a brother or sister at the school at the time of enrolment will increase the priority of an application within each category.
Tie Break
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 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