Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Primary School
| Postal address | Kenilworth Road Lytham St Annes FY8 1LB |
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| Telephone | 01253 726015 |
| Headteacher | Mrs N Gregan |
| Number on roll January 2024 | 208 |
| Admission number 2025/26 | 30 |
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.
- Baptised Catholic looked after children or children who were 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.
- Baptised Catholic children of parents who are practising Catholics living in the parishes of Our Lady Star of the Sea, St Albans and St Joseph’s.
- Other Baptised Catholic children with a sibling in the school at the time of expected admission.
- Baptised Catholic children of a staff member with two or more years service at the date the child enters school.
- Other Baptised Catholic children.
- Other looked after children or children who were 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.
- Other children with a sibling in school at the time of expected admission.
- Children of a staff member with two or more years service at the date the child enters school.
- Other children.
Applicants living nearest to the school. The distance between an applicant's home and school is measured as a straight line from the Ordnance Survey address point of the home address to the main entrance of the school. The Ordnance Survey address point is a point within the boundary of the property and is usually located at its centre. Distances are measured using the Council's Geographic Information System. In the event of a tied distance measurement between address points the Local Authority’s system of a random draw will determine which address(es) receive the offer(s).
Parents who wish their application to this Catholic School to be considered against the priority faith criteria should also complete the school's supplementary information form.
Weekly attendance at mass over a sustained period of at least three years.
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