Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Engineering College

Postal address Glenburn Road
Skelmersdale WN8 6JW  
Telephone 01695 725635
Headteacher Mrs M Henshaw
Number on roll January 2024 890
Admission number 2025/26 185

Information relating to autumn term 2024 year 7 admissions

Total parental preferences (considered equally)

1st 91 
2nd 135
3rd 74
Total preferences received 300

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. 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. Baptised Catholic children who have a sibling in the school at the time of admission.
  3. Baptised Catholic children resident in the parish of St Richard.
  4. Other baptised Catholic children.
  5. Other children who have a sibling in the school at the time of admission.
  6. Children attending one of the following Catholic Feeder Primary Schools in the parish named in criterion 3 above:

    St Edmund's, Skelmersdale
    St John's, Skelmersdale
    St Francis of Assisi, Skelmersdale
    St Richard's, Skelmersdale
    St James', Skelmersdale

  1. Children from other Christian denominations. Proof of Baptism in the form of a Baptismal Certificate or confirmation in writing that the applicant is a member of their faith community from an appropriate Minister of Religion is required.
  2. Children of other faiths. An appropriate Faith Leader would need to confirm in writing that the applicant is a member of their faith group.
  3. Other children.

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

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