Longridge High School
| Postal address | Preston Road Longridge Preston PR3 3AR |
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| Telephone | 01772 782316 |
| Headteacher | Ms J Green |
| Number on roll January 2024 | 823 |
| Admission number 2025/26 | 210 agreed by committee item |
Information relating to autumn term 2024 year 7 admissions
Total parental preferences (considered equally)
| 1st | 124 |
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| 2nd | 114 |
| 3rd | 79 |
| Total preferences received | 317 |
Initial allocation under each criterion:
| Education, Health & Care Plan | 0 |
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| LAC and previously Looked After | 1 |
| Social/Medical/Welfare | 0 |
| In GPA with Sibling | 23 |
| In GPA no sibling | 62 |
| Out GPA with sibling | 17 |
| Out GPA no sibling | 62 |
| LA Allocated | 0 |
| Total | 165 |
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.
When the Academy is oversubscribed, after the admission of pupils with Education Health and Care Plans naming the Academy, priority for admission will be applied by the Trust :
- 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, then
- Children for whom the Governors accept that there are exceptional medical, social or welfare reasons which are directly relevant to the school concerned, then
- Children eligible for Services Premium, then,
- Children living within the school’s geographical priority area with older brothers or sisters attending the school when the younger child will start, then.
- Children living within the school’s geographical priority area, then
- Children living outside the school’s geographical priority area with older brothers or sisters still attending the school when the younger child will start, then
- Children living outside the school’s Geographical Priority Area, below.
Tie-breaker:
The distance criterion will be used as the tie breaker if there is oversubscription within any of the admission criteria; it is a straight line (radial) measure.
If the Governors unable to distinguish between applicants using the published criteria (eg. siblings, those living the same distance from home to school, or families
residing in the same block of flats) places will be offered via a random draw. The distance measure is a straight line measurement (radial) between the applicant’s home address points and the address point of the school (co-ordinates provided by ordnance survey data).
Definitions
Definitions of the following terms are available and apply except where individual arrangements spell out a different definition.
Geographical priority area
Parishes of Chipping, Goosnargh, Thornley with Wheatley, Whittingham, Haighton, Grimsargh, Longridge, Hothersall, Ribchester and Dutton.
Ribchester is in both Longridge and Ribblesdale High School's Geographical Priority Areas.
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.