St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Lea Town
| Postal address | Darkinson Lane Lea Town Preston PR4 0RJ |
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| Telephone | 01772 729881 |
| Headteacher | Mrs A Brogden |
| Number on roll January 2025 | 107 |
| 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.
- 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. Mary’s, Lea Town, St. Andrew & Blessed George Haydock, Cottam and St. Robert’s Catforth with a sibling in the school at the time of expected admission. .
- Baptised Catholic children resident in the parishes of St. Mary’s, Lea Town, St. Andrew & Blessed George Haydock, Cottam and St. Robert’s, Catforth.
- Baptised Catholic children with a sibling.
- Other Baptised Catholic children.
- Other 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 who have a sibling in the school at the time of admission.
- Children with social or medical needs where the application is accompanied by a declaration from an appropriate medical professional.
- Other
In the event of oversubscription in any of the above criteria places will be allocated according to the following tie breaker criteria which are listed in priority order:
Applicants living nearest to the school. The distance between an applicant’s home and school is measured as a straight line from the centre of the home address to the centre of the school. Distances are measured using the Council’s Geographic Information System.