St Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School, Hurst Green

Postal address	Whalley Road Hurst Green Clitheroe BB7 9QJ
Telephone	01254 826246
Headteacher	Mrs L Orr
Number on roll January 2024	110
Admission number 2025/26	15

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 Roman Catholic 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.. 
2. Baptised Roman Catholic children who will have a brother or sister attending the school at the time of admission and are resident in the parish.
3. Baptised Roman Catholic children who are resident in the parish.
4. Baptised Roman Catholic children who will have a brother or sister attending the school at the time of admission and who are resident in another parish.
5. Other baptised Roman Catholic children who are resident in another parish.
6. Non Roman Catholic 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. Non Roman Catholic children who will have a brother or sister attending the school at the time of admission
8. Non Roman Catholic children. 

Tie-break decisions will be made when the admission number is reached. 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 determining factor, nearer addresses having priority over more distant ones. The 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