Mount Carmel Roman Catholic High School

Postal address Wordsworth Road
Accrington
BB5 0LU
Telephone 01254 233458
Headteacher Mr X Bowers
Number on roll January 2024 798
Admission number 2025/26 162

Information relating to autumn term 2024 year 7 admissions

Total parental preferences (considered equally)

1st 166
2nd 109
3rd 108
Total preferences received 383

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.

The Governors have a duty to admit children with statements of Special Educational Needs which name Mount Carmel RC High School.

Where the school receives more applications than there are places available, the governing body will offer places using the following priority order:

  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, then
  2. a) Baptised Catholic pupils (refer to box a)
  3. b) other pupils who attend a partner Catholic school (refer to box b)
  4.  pupils attending one of the 'Oswaldtwistle & Church Cluster' schools (refer to box c)
  5. pupils who attend a Christian faith primary school (refer to box d)
  6. a pupil who has a sibling who would be concurrently on roll at the school
  7. Any other pupil

(A) Baptised Catholic pupils

Send a copy of the pupil's baptismal certificate to Mount Carmel RC High School, Wordsworth Road, Accrington, BB5 0LU in an envelope marked 'Pupil Admissions', or hand in to the school office.

(B) Partner Catholic schools

  • St Anne's & St Joseph's Accrington
  • St Mary's Clayton-Le-Moors
  • St Mary's Oswaldtwistle
  • St Oswald's Accrington
  • Sacred Heart Accrington

(C) Oswaldtwistle and Church cluster schools

  • St Andrew's CE Primary
  • Green Haworth CE Primary
  • Hippings Methodist Primary
  • Knuzden St Oswald's CE Primary
  • Moor End
  • St Nicholas CE Primary
  • St Paul's CE Primary
  • St Peter's CE Primary
  • West End

(D) Christian faith primary schools

  • All Saints CE Primary
  • Altham St James CE Primary
  • Baxenden St John's CE Primary
  • Benjamin Hargreaves CE Primary
  • St John's with St Augustine's CE Primary
  • St Mary Magdalen's CE Primary
  • Other Christian faith schools

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 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).

Transport

Mount Carmel is now subsidising the cost of bus fares by 50% on 867 and 869 bus routes covering routes from Oswaldtwistle and Clayton-le-Moors.

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