Pilling St John's Church of England Primary

Postal address	Ladies Hill Pilling Preston PR3 6HA
Telephone	01253 790282
Headteacher	Mr J Ratcliffe
Number on roll January 2024	100
Admission number 2025/26	15

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.

1. (a) Children in public care and previously looked after children. This criteria also includes looked after children and all previously looked after children who appear (to the admission authority) to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted.
   (b) Children with special medical or social circumstances affecting the child where these needs can only be met at this school
2. Children who have a sibling attending the school on the date of application and on the date of admission.
3. Children whose parent/guardian lives within the ecclesiastical parish of Pilling or Eagland Hill. A map showing the boundaries is available in school and on the school website.
   a) Children with a parent/guardian worshipping in a church in membership of Churches Together in England or the Evangelical Alliance. Children with a parent/guardian worshipping in a church in full membership of Churches Together in England or the Evangelical Alliance
   b) Other children
4. Children whose parent/guardian lives outside the ecclesiastical parish of Pilling or Eagland Hill. A map showing the boundaries is available in school and on the school website.
   a) Children with a parent/guardian worshipping in a church in membership of Churches Together in England or the Evangelical Alliance. Children with a parent/guardian worshipping in a church in full membership of Churches Together in England or the Evangelical Alliance
   b) Other children

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

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