St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Barnoldswick

Postal address West Close Road
Barnoldswick
BB18 5EN
Telephone 01282 813045
Headteacher Mrs N Wood
Number on roll January 2024 122
Admission number 2025/26 20

Summary of policy

This is an Academy – 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.

At any time where there are more applications for places than the number of places available, places will be offered in the following order of priority:

  1. Catholic looked after Children and previously looked after Catholic children or looked after/previously looked after children from catholic families. (see notes 2 & 3)
  2. Baptised Catholic children with a sibling(s) who attends St. Joseph’s Catholic Primary School (see note 4)
  3. Baptised Catholic children who live in the defined area. (see note 5)
  4. Other baptised Catholic children.
  5. Other looked after and previously looked after children with a sibling who attends St.Joseph’s Catholic Primary School (see note 2 & 4)
  6. Other looked after and previously looked after children (see note 2)
  7. Members of an Eastern Christian Church (see note 6)
  8. Other children with a sibling(s) who attends St. Joseph’s Catholic Primary School (see note 4)
  9. Other children.

Tie break

  • Where the offer of places to all the applicants in any of the categories listed above would still lead to oversubscription, the available places will be offered to those living nearest to the school. ‘straight line distance’ will be used as the measure.
  • If two or more pupils live equidistant from the school, places will be decided by random allocation.
  • Where there is more than one application from a postal address contained within a block of flats, places will be decided by random allocation.

Straight line distance – in all categories, when decisions have to be made between children satisfying the same criterion, children living nearest to the school, using a straight-line measure, have priority.  The straight-line distance will be measured from the centre point of the house to the centre point of the school.  These are determined by the local authority.

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