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St Ambrose Barlow RC High School is a Roman Catholic Secondary School provided by the Diocese of Salford and is maintained by the Salford Local Education Authority as a Voluntary Aided School. The school’s Governing Body is the Admissions Authority and is responsible for taking decision on applications for admission. For the school year commencing September 2010, the Governing Body has set its planned admissions number at 150. The Governors recognise that the first responsibility of the school is to serve the Roman Catholic community for which it has been established. This is focused on the designated parish communities and the Roman Catholic primary schools that are partners in providing for those communities. In establishing their oversubscription criteria, the Governors have also taken full account of the Code of Practice produced by the Department for Children Schools and Families and the emphasis placed on supporting children in public care. The nominated parish communities served by the school are: 1. St Marks, Pendlebury, Swinton
2. St Luke’s, Irlam O’th Height, Salford
3. St Peter and St Paul, Salford 6
4. St Mary’s Swinton
5. St Charles, Swinton
The partner primary schools are: 1. St Marks, Queensway, Clifton, Swinton, M27 8QE
2. St Luke’s, Swinton Park Road, Salford M6 7WR
3. St Mary’s, Milner Street, Swinton, M27 4AS
4. St Charles, Moorside Road, Swinton, M27 9PD Admission to the school will be made by the Governing Body in accordance with the following set of criteria which will be used to form a priority order if there are more applications for admission than the school has places available.
Within categories 2 to 12, priority will be given to pupils who will have a brother or sister at the school at the time of proposed admission.
1. Roman Catholic Looked After Children 2. Baptised Roman Catholic pupils who live in the nominated parishes of St Marks, (Swinton), St Luke’s, (Salford), St Mary’s, (Swinton), St Charles, (Swinton) and St Peter and St Paul (Salford 6).and who attend the following partner Primary Schools: St Marks, (Swinton), St Luke’s (Salford), St Mary’s (Swinton), St Charles’ (Swinton). 3. Baptised Roman Catholic pupils who attend a partner primary school but who do not live in the nominated parishes 4. Baptised Roman Catholic pupils who live in the nominated parishes of St Charles, St Luke’s, St Mark’s and St Mary’s and St Peter and St Paul, Salford 6 and who attend other Roman Catholic Primary Schools.
5. Baptised Roman Catholic pupils who live in a nominated parish but do not attend a Roman Catholic Primary school. 6. Baptised Roman Catholic pupils who attend a Roman Catholic primary school 7. Other Roman Catholic Children 8. Other Looked After children 9. Other children attending partner primary schools who are not baptised Roman Catholic. 10. Non-Catholic children attending other Roman Catholic Primary schools 11. Other Children.
Tie Breaker
If there are more applicants than places available, priority will be given on the basis of proximity to the school. Distance from the school: this would involve a measurement being made between the centre point of the child’s permanent place of residence (house or flat) and the centre point of the preferred school in a straight line (as the crow flies) using the local authority computer system. Those children who live closest to the school will be those who get priority for places. * see notes opposite a) All on time applicants will be considered at the same time and after the closing date for admission which is provided to you by the Local Authority. Late applications will be considered by the Governors after all other applications have been considered.
b) Each Roman Catholic applicant will be required to produce a baptismal certificate as indicated in the letter to parents issued by the Local Authority in each admission year.
c) *Brothers and sisters are defined as blood brothers and sisters, step brothers and step sisters and brothers and sisters by adoption
d) Parents should check carefully whether they are resident within the parish boundary of one of the designated parishes. A copy of the parish boundaries is available from the school office.
e) If an application has been turned down by the Governing Body, parents can appeal to an Independent Appeal Committee. This appeal must be sent in writing to the Clerk to the Governors at the school within 14 days of refusal. The parents must give their reasons for appealing, in writing, and the decision of the Appeals Panel is binding on the Governors.
f) All applicants will be expected to have completed the Local Authority’s application form and to have returned the form by the due date.
g) If in any year it receives more applications for places than there are places available, St Ambrose Barlow RC High School will operate a waiting list until 31st December of that year. It is open to any parent to ask for his or her child’s name to be placed on the waiting list following either an unsuccessful application or an unsuccessful appeal. The child’s position on the waiting list will be determined solely in accordance with the oversubscription criteria set out above.
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