Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Engineering College

Information relating to autumn term 2025 year 7 admissions

Total parental preferences (considered equally)

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.

Pupils with an Education, Health and Care Plan ~ The admission of pupils with an Education, Health and Care Plan is dealt with by a completely separate procedure. Children with an Education, Health and Care Plan that names the school must be admitted. Where this takes place before the allocation of places under these arrangements, this will reduce the number of places available to other children.

Within each of the categories listed below, the following provisions will be applied in the following order.

1. Where evidence is provided at the time of application of an exceptional social, medical or pastoral need of the child which can most appropriately be met at this school, the application will be placed at the top of the category in which the application is made.

2. The attendance of a brother or sister at the school at the time of enrolment will increase the priority of an application within each category so that the application will be placed at the top of the category in which the application is made after children in (i) above.

Oversubscription Criteria

Where there are more applications for places than the number of places available, places will be offered according to the following order of priority.

1. Looked after children and previously looked after children.

2. Catholic children who are resident in the parish of St Richard.

3. Other Catholic children.

4. Children attending one of the following Catholic Partner Primary Schools in the parishes or former parishes named in criterion 2 above:

   • St Edmund’s, Skelmersdale

   • St Francis of Assisi, Skelmersdale

   • St John’s, Skelmersdale

   • St Richard’s, Skelmersdale

   • St James’, Skelmersdale

5. Members of an Eastern Christian Church not in full communion with Rome.

6. Children of other Christian Ecclesial Communities whose membership is evidenced by a minister of religion.

7. Children of other faiths whose membership is evidenced by a religious leader.

8. Any other children.

Tie Break

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 Governing Body is unable to distinguish between applicants using the published criteria (e.g. 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).

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