Saint William's Catholic Primary School, Pilling

Postal address	Garstang Road Pilling Preston PR3 6AL
Telephone	01253 790389
Headteacher	Mrs Heather Hogarth
Number on roll January 2024	41
Admission number 2025/26	12

Summary of policy

This is an Academy 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. 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.
2. Baptised Catholic children who live in the parishes of St William’s and St Bernard’s with a sibling in the school at the time of expected admission.
3. Other Baptised Catholic children who live in the parish of St William’s and St Bernard’s.
4. Other Baptised Catholic children with a sibling in the school at the time of expected admission.
5. Other Baptised Catholic children.
6. 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.
7. Other children with a sibling in school at the time of expected admission.
8. Other children.

In the event of oversubscription in any of the above criteria places will be allocated according to the following tie breaker criterion:

Applicants living nearest to the school. The distance measure is a straight line (radial) measure from the centre of the building that is the applicant’s home address to the centre of the school building. Distances are measured using the Councils’ Geographic Information System. If the Governing Body is unable to distinguish between applicants in any of the oversubscription criteria using this distance tie breaker (e.g. applicants in the same block of flats) places will be offered via a random draw.

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