School Prospectus and Admission Arrangements
How to Apply to Read St John’s C E Primary School
We still have a few places available across the school.
If you are interested in your child attending our school, please contact Mrs Wade to arrange a visit. She is also available to discuss the admissions process.
You must then complete a Lancashire admissions form online in the autumn term. The Lancashire admissions website may be found here.
The Local Authority will inform parents whether or not their application for a place at the school has been successful in Spring 2025.
We then contact parents to confirm that you wish to accept the place you have been offered for your child.
The school follows the Lancashire Education Authority guidelines for admissions.
Children are admitted to our School in September of the academic year in which they turn five years old.
Admissions Policy for September 2025’s Intake.
Our standard admission number is 30.
When a school is oversubscribed on parental preferences, then the following priorities apply in order:
- 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 (see note (x) below).
- Children for whom the Local Authority accepts that there are exceptional medical social or welfare reasons which are directly relevant to the school concerned (see note (i).
- Children with older brothers and sisters attending the school when the younger child will start, (see note (iii) below).
- Remaining places are allocated according to where a child lives. Those living nearest to the preferred school by a straight line (radial) measure will have priority.
To see the policy in full please click here.
If you’re not happy with the school place you’re given, you can appeal for any school. Please click here.
By law we must publish the dates on which appeals for September intake admissions will be heard.
These are provisional dates and are subject to change. Days could be added to or cancelled depending on the volume of appeals lodged and panel/clerk availability.
The deadline to submit an appeal is:
- 22 May 2025 for primary Reception appeals
- 31 March 2025 for secondary Year 7 appeals
Any appeals submitted after the deadline may be heard after all on time appeals have been heard.
An appeals officer will be in touch with you before the hearing date and will provide full details.
Academy and free school appeals will be scheduled along with the relevant voluntary aided district dates.
| The hearing date for Hyndburn/Ribble Valley community and voluntary controlled primary schools. | 14 to 18 July 2025 |