St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School, Haslingden

Postal address Lime Road
Haslingden
BB4 5NP
Telephone 01706 214747
Headteacher Ms D McNicoll
Number on roll January 2024 139
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 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 Catholic children who have a sibling in the school at the time of admission.
  3. Baptised Catholic children resident in the school's Parish catchment area described below
  4. Children resident in the parish of St Marie’s.
  5. Other baptised Catholic children.
  6. Other children who have a sibling in the school at the time of admission.
  7. All remaining applicants.

The demarcation line for the catchment areas of St Mary’s and St Veronica’s Primary Schools is as follows:                                   

From the Holden Arms eastwards down Grane Road to the slip road of the A56, then southward along the A56 then eastward along the slip road off the A56 leading to Bent Gate.

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 proximity to the school measured by a straight line ‘radial’ measure between the centre of the family home to the centre of the school.

In the event of distances being the same for 2 or more applicants where this distance would determine the last place/s to be allocated, 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