Baines School

Postal address

Highcross Road
Poulton-le-Fylde
FY6 8BE   
Telephone 01253 883019
Headteacher Mrs C Doherty
Number on roll January 2024 863
Admission number 2025/26 168

Information relating to autumn term 2024 year 7 admissions

Total parental preferences (considered equally)

1st 78
2nd 158
3rd 170
Total preferences received 406

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.

When applications for admission to Year 7 exceed the number of places available, the following criteria will be applied, in the order set out below, to decide which children to admit.

Twins/triplets will be considered as one unit, and places awarded based on the highest criterion applicable to the 'unit' application.

  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. The consideration of special medical, social or educational needs relating to an individual child. Applications under this criterion should be backed up by any correspondence held, from the appropriate body that would support a claim under this criterion. E.g. G.P. SEN coordinator, Educational Psychiatrist. All correspondence will be treated in the strictest confidence.
  3. IN GPA (Geographical Priority Area) – The presence of an older brother or sister in the school (Sibling Rule). This applies where the older brother or sister will be on the school roll at the time of entry into school.
  4. IN GPA (Geographical Priority Area) – Children living within the school's geographical priority area.
  5. OUT OF GPA (Geographical Priority Area) – The presence of an older brother or sister in the school (Sibling Rule). This applies where the older brother or sister will be on the school roll at the time of entry into the school.
  6. Children whose Parents are employed by the school, where the member of staff has been employed at the school for two years or more at the time when the application for admission is made or where he/she has been recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage.
  7. Children who request admission to the school but cannot claim a place under any of the above criteria will be sorted by distance. Those living nearest to the school will be afforded a higher priority.  This is a straight line measuring system and measures from the centre of the Main School Building to the centre of the applicant's house.

    Criteria 2 will first be used for those whose addresses fall within the Geographical Priority Area before being used for those outside the Geographical Area.
    The distance criterion will be used as the tie breaker if there is oversubscription within any of the admission criteria.

Geographical priority area

Parishes of Thornton Cleveleys (part**), Poulton Le Fylde, Staining, Singleton, Eccleston with Larbreck, Great Eccleston, Elswick and Hambleton.

** The cut off point being Amoundernous Way from the Singleton Parish boundary to the border with Blackpool

Transport

Please see the main school admissions section.

Parents in any doubt over the distance between home and school for the provision of transport are asked to check with their local area education office. This may be particularly relevant if you live close to a county border.

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