The Blessed Sacrament Catholic Primary School, Preston

Postal address Farringdon Lane
Ribbleton
Preston PR2 6LX   
Telephone 01772 792572
Headteacher Miss K Hannah
Number on roll January 2024 400
Admission number 2025/26 60

Summary of policy

This is an academy – please contact the academy 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 and previously Looked After Children. This includes children who appear to have been in state care outside of England and have ceased to be in state care due to be adopted.
  2. Baptised Catholic  Catholic children who live in the parish of The Blessed Sacrament.
  3. Other Catholic children.
  4. Non-Catholic Looked After Children and previously Looked After Children This includes children who appear to have been in state care outside of England and have ceased to be in state care due to be adopted.
  5. Catechumens and members of an Eastern Christian Church.
  6. Children of other Christian denominations.
  7. Children of other faiths.
  8. Any other children.

Within each of the categories listed above, the following provisions will be applied in the following order.

(i) Where evidence is provided at the time of application of an exceptional social, medical or pastoral need of the child which can most appropriately be met at this school, the application will be placed at the top of the category in which the application is made.

(ii) The attendance of a brother or sister at the school at the time of enrolment will increase the priority of an application within each category so that the application will be placed at the top of the category in which the application is made after children in (i) above

Tie Break

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 two addresses have the same distance, or the cut-off point is for addresses within the same building, then 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