St Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School Stacksteads, Bacup

Postal address Huttock End Lane
Stacksteads
Bacup
OL13 8LD
Telephone 01706 873177
Headteacher Mrs M Scott
Number on roll January 2024 120
Admission number 2025/26 20

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 and previously Looked After Children. This includes those children adopted from care outside of England.
  2. Baptised Catholic children who have a sibling in the school at the time of admission.
  3. Baptised Catholic children resident in the parish of St Joseph's.
  4. Other children who have a sibling in the school at the time of admission.
  5. Other Baptised Catholic children.
  6. Other Baptised Catholic Children of members of staff who have been employed at the school for two or more years at the time the application is made.
  7. All remaining applicants.

If it is not possible to offer places for all applications within any criterion above, priority will be given to those living closest to the school measured by the method used by the local authority. In the event of distances being the same for two or more applicants, places will be allocated by the method used 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