St John Southworth Roman Catholic Primary School, Nelson
| Postal address |
Lomeshaye Road
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|---|---|
| Telephone | 01282 613906 |
| Headteacher | Ms Jemma Stuttard |
| Number on roll January 2024 | 209 |
| Admission number 2025/26 | 30 |
Summary of policy
This is an academy – please contact the academy 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.
Where the Academy has more applications than places available the Academy local governing body will draw up a ranked list based on the criteria listed below and will allocate places accordingly.
Pupils with an Educational Health and Care Plan (EHCP) which names St John Southworth will be admitted. This will reduce the number of places available.
1. A baptised Catholic ‘looked after child' or a baptised Catholic child who was previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, child arrangements or special guardianship order, including those who appear to this 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. Other Baptised Catholic children who have a sibling in the school at the time of admission.
3. Baptised Catholic children resident in the parishes of St John Southworth.
4. Other Baptised Catholic children.
5. A 'looked after child' or a child who was previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, child arrangements or special guardianship order, including those who appear to this admission authority to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted.
6. Other children who have a sibling in the school at the time of admission.
7. All remaining applicants.
Tiebreakers:
The distance criterion will be used as the tie breaker if there is oversubscription within any of the admission criteria; it is a straight line (radial) measure.
If Governors are unable to distinguish between applicants using the published criteria (eg. Siblings, those living the same distance from home to school, or families residing in the same block of flats) places will be offered via a random draw.
The distance measure is a straight line measurement (radial) between the applicant’s home address points and the address point of the school (co-ordinates provided by ordnance survey data).
Where there are places available for some, but not all applicants within a particular criterion, allocation will be made on a random basis with lots drawn.
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