The Cathedral Catholic Primary School, Lancaster

Postal address	Balmoral Road Lancaster LA1 3BT
Telephone	01524 64686
Headteacher	Mrs N Holt
Number on roll January 2024	206
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.

1. A baptised Catholic 'looked after child' or a baptised Catholic child who was previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, child arrangements or special guardianship order, including those who appear to this admission authority 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 live in the parishes of the Cathedral and St Thomas More with a sibling in the school at the time of expected admission.
3. Other Baptised Catholic children who live in the parishes of the Cathedral and St Thomas More.
4. Other Baptised Catholic children with a sibling in the school at the time of expected admission.
5. Other Baptised Catholic children.
6. Other 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.
7. Other children with a sibling in the school at the time of expected admission.
8. Other children.

Where there are more applicants for the available places within a category, then the distance between the Ordinance 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