Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Primary School, Church

Postal address Bradshaw Row
Church
Accrington
BB5 4HG
Telephone 01254 233382
Headteacher Mrs C Mashiter
Number on roll January 2024 205
Admission number 2025/26 28

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. Looked After Children (LAC) 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. 
  2. Children with an exceptional social, medical, educational or religious need which can be best met, or only met at this school.
  3. Baptised Catholic children who have a sibling in the school at the time of admission and are resident in the former parish of Sacred Heart.
  4. Other Baptised Catholic children who are resident in the former parish of Sacred Heart.
  5. Other Baptised Catholic children who will have a sibling attending the school at the time of admission and are resident in another parish.
  6. Other Baptised Catholic children who are resident in another parish.
  7. Other children who have a sibling attending the school at the time of admission.
  8. Children eligible for the early year's pupil premium, or service pupil premium who attend Sacred Heart RC Nursery which is part of the school.
  9. Children eligible for early year's pupil premium, pupil premium or service premium funding.
  10. All remaining applicants. 

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 the cutoff point is for addresses within the same building, then the single measure between address points will apply and 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