St Maria Goretti Catholic Primary School, Preston

Postal address	Gamull Lane Ribbleton Preston PR2 6SJ
Telephone	01772 700052
Headteacher	Mrs A Rich
Number on roll January 2024	217
Admission number 2025/26	30

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.

Baptised 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.
Baptised Catholic Children who live in the parish of St. Maria Goretti with a sibling in the school at the time of expected admission.
Other Baptised Catholic children who live in the parish of St. Maria Goretti.
Other Baptised Catholic children with a sibling in the school at the time of expected admission.
Other Baptised Catholic Children.
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.
Other children with a sibling in school at the time of expected admission.
Children who attend St Maria Goretti Nursery in receipt of Early Years Pupil Premium.
Other children

Where there are more applicants for the available places within the above categories, then the distance between the Ordnance Survey address points for the school and the home measured in a straight line will be used as a final determining factor, nearer addresses having priority over more distance ones. This address point is within the body of the property and usually located at its centre. Where the cut off point is for the addresses within the same building ie flats, then the single measure between address points will apply and the local Authority’s system of 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