St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School, Clayton-le-Moors

Postal address	Devonshire Drive Clayton-le-Moors Accrington BB5 5RJ
Telephone	01254 231277
Headteacher	Mr M Mashiter
Number on roll January 2024	127
Admission number 2025/26	17

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 Catholic looked after children or children who were 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 with proven and exceptional medical and social needs where admission to the school might best satisfy those needs, provided that appropriate evidence from a doctor or social worker is submitted with the application.
3. Baptised Roman Catholic children who have a brother, a sister or a half/step/foster/adopted sibling attending the school at the time of admission and are resident in the parish of St. Mary’s, Clayton-le-Moors.
4. Baptised Roman Catholic children who are resident in the parish of St. Mary’s, Clayton-le-Moors.
5. Other baptised Roman Catholic children who have a brother or a sister attending the school at the time of admission.
6. Other baptised Roman Catholic children.
7. Other looked after children or children who were 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.
8. Children with proven and exceptional medical and social needs where admission to the school might best satisfy those needs, provided that appropriate evidence from a doctor or social worker is submitted with the application.
9. Other children who have a brother or a sister attending the school at the time of admission.
10. Other children.

If, within any category, there are more applicants than places available priority will be given on the basis of proximity to the school measured by the walking distance along public highways between the front door of the family home to the main entrance door of the school. In the event of a tied distance measurement between address points, 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