St Ignatius' Catholic Primary School, Preston

Postal address St Ignatius' Square
Preston PR1 1TT  
Telephone 01772 555252
Headteacher Mr C J Hough
Number on roll January 2024 198
Admission number 2025/26 27

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 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 states care as a result of being adopted
  2. Siblings of baptised Catholic children at the school who will still be on the school roll at the time of admission
  3. Baptised Catholic Children resident in the area of St John XXIII
  4. Baptised Catholic Children resident in another Parish
  5. Other Siblings of children at the school who will still be on the school roll at the time of admission
  6. Children with a specific educational, medical, social or emotional need relevant to the school, provided that appropriate written evidence from a suitably qualified professional (e.g. doctor or social worker) is submitted with the application.
  7. Children of other faiths
  8. 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 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).

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