St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School, Osbaldeston

Postal address Longsight Road
Osbaldeston
Nr Blackburn
BB2 7HX
Telephone 01254 812543
Headteacher Mrs M Coulthard
Number on roll January 2024 78
Admission number 2025/26 13

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, then

  2. Children with an exceptional social, medical, educational or religious need which can be best met, or only met at this school

  3. Baptised Catholic children who have a sibling in the school at the time of admission and are resident in the parish of St Marys
  4. Baptised Catholic children resident in the parish of St Mary's.
  5. Baptised Catholic children who have a sibling in the school at the time of admission and are resident in another parish.
  6. Baptised Catholic children resident in the parish of St Mary and St John Southworth, Samlesbury.
  7. Catholic children of a staff member* with two or more years’ service at the date the child enters school.
  8. Other baptised Catholic children who are resident in another parish.
  9. Children of a staff member* with two or more years’ service at the date the child enters school.
  10. Other children with a sibling attending the school at the time of admission.
  11. Other children.

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