St Wilfrid's Roman Catholic Primary School, Longridge
| Postal address | St Wilfrid's Terrace Longridge Preston PR3 3WQ |
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| Telephone | 01772 782394 |
| Headteacher | Mr J McHugh |
| Number on roll January 2024 |
198 |
| 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.
- Priority will be given to Baptised Catholic looked 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.
- Roman Catholic children who will have a sibling attending the school at the time of admission and resident in the parish of St. Wilfrid’s.
- Other Roman Catholic children who are resident in the parish of St. Wilfrid’s.
- Roman Catholic children who will have a sibling attending the school at the time of admission and are resident in another parish.
- Roman Catholic children resident in another parish.
- Priority will be given to all other children who are looked 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.
- Any non-Roman Catholic Children with siblings at the school.
- Any other children.
If in any category there are more applications than places available, priority will be given on the basis of distance from home to school by a straight line measure. Measurement will be from the centre of the school building to the centre of the applicant's home address. In the event of a tied 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