SS Mary and Michael Catholic Primary School, Garstang
| Postal address | Castle Lane Garstang Preston PR3 1RB |
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| Telephone | 01995 603023 |
| Headteacher | Mrs L Archibald |
| Number on roll January 2024 | 102 |
| Admission number 2025/26 | 25 |
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.
- All children in public care and previously looked after children who are Catholic will be admitted ahead of all others. 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.
- Children who are baptised Catholics or have been received into the Catholic church with priority given to those who are resident in the parishes of St Mary and St Michael, Garstang and St Mary and St James, Scorton. In the event of the admission number being exceeded in this category, places will be offered up to the published admission number to those who regularly attend Mass at either of the parish churches.
- Children who are baptised Catholics or have been received into the Catholic church with priority given to those who are resident in the parishes adjacent to St Mary and St Michael, Garstang and St Mary and St James, Scorton. In the event of the admission number being exceeded in this category, places will be offered up to the published admission number to those who regularly attend Mass at their parish church.
- Children in public care and previously looked after children who are not Catholics. Looked after children or a child who was 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.
If the number of children in any category 1 to 5 above is greater than the places available, applications will be further ranked as follows:
- Children who have a full, half, foster, step brother or sister or adopted in the school at the time of admission.
- 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 cut off 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).