St Anthony's Catholic Primary School, Fulwood

Postal address St Anthony's Drive
Fulwood
Preston
PR2 3SQ
Telephone 01772 726621 
Headteacher Mrs J Barnes
Number on roll January 2024 319
Admission number 2025/26 45

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. Baptised Catholic looked 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 parish of St Anthony’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 Anthony’s.
  4. Other Baptised Catholic with a sibling in the school at the time of expected admission.
  5. Other Baptised Catholic children.
  6. Other 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.
  7. Other children with a sibling in school at the time of expected admission.
  8. Children with social or medical needs where the application is accompanied by a declaration from an appropriate medical professional naming the school.
  9. Other children

In the event of oversubscription in any of the above criteria places will be allocated according to the following tie breaker criteria which are listed in priority order:

Applicants living nearest to the school. The distance between an applicant’s home and school is measured as a straight line from the centre of the home address to the centre of the school. Distances are measured using the Council’s Geographic Information System.

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