Cardinal Allen Catholic High School
| Postal address | Melbourne Avenue Fleetwood FY7 8AY |
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| Telephone | 01253 872659 |
| Headteacher | Mr A Cafferkey |
| Number on roll January 2024 | 800 |
| Admission number 2025/26 | 166 |
Information relating to autumn term 2024 year 7 admissions
Total parental preferences (considered equally)
| 1st | 134 |
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| 2nd | 165 |
| 3rd | 74 |
| Total preferences received | 373 |
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.
Places will be offered in accordance with the following order of priority:
A. Looked After Children and previously Looked After Children (i.e. children in care or previously in care). This criteria also includes looked after children and all previously looked after children who appear (to the admission authority) to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted.
B. Baptised Catholic children.
C. Children who are not Baptised Catholics who will have a sibling in the school at the expected time of admission.
D. Other Christian children.
E. Children who are not Baptised Catholics/Christians who currently attend one of the partner Catholic Primary Schools named below.
F. Children of Staff.
G. Other children.
** Applicants under criteria B and D will need to produce evidence of baptism **
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. The Centre of school is the School Chapel. 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 offers(s).
The school serves in the first instance Catholic children from the Catholic parishes situated within the Borough of Wyre (St Mary's, St Wulstan's and St Edmund's - Fleetwood, St John's, St Martin De Porres and English Martyrs - Poulton, Sacred Heart and St Nicholas Owen - Thornton) together with the Catholic parishes of Cleveleys (St Teresa and St John Southworth), Bispham (St Bernadette), Pilling (St William), Knott End (St Bernard) and Great Eccleston (St Mary). In the case of Great Eccleston the children who travel to that school from Elswick, Little Eccleston, Larbreck, Out Rawcliffe, Singleton, Thistleton, St Michael's and Inskip are also included.
Specifically, and in the first instance, Cardinal Allen has the following partner schools: St. Wulstan’s and St. Edmund’s, Fleetwood; St. Mary’s, Fleetwood; St. Teresa’s, Cleveleys; Sacred Heart, Thornton; St. John’s, Poulton; St. Bernadette’s, Bispham; St. Mary’s, Gt. Eccleston; St. William’s, Pilling.
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