Lingdale Primary School

When there are more applications than places for 2026-27 (Reception), places are offered in this order of priority. Meeting a higher criterion beats meeting a lower one.

1. 1Looked after and previously looked after children — Looked after children in local authority and previously looked after children.
2. 2Children who are permanently resident in the admission zone defined for the school — Children who are permanently resident in the admission zone defined for the school.
3. 3Children who have elder brothers or sisters attending the school in the 2026/27 school y… — Children who have elder brothers or sisters attending the school in the 2026/27 school year.
4. 4Exceptional medical or psychological grounds — Children who have exceptional social and/or medical reasons for attending a particular school, professionally supported by an independent third party and sustained by the Authority's professional advisors.
5. 5Children living closest to the school — Children living closest to the school.

Transcribed from the criteria column of Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council's A Guide for Parents – Primary Admissions (2026-27), read by word x-position because the guide lays the criteria out beside an explanatory-notes column. A child with an Education, Health and Care Plan naming the school is placed first; that is not an oversubscription criterion. CORRECTION 2026-09-12: an earlier write on the same day stored this school's criteria straight from a table extraction that had merged the two columns (Wilton) or had captured the section's table headers as criteria 1 and 2 (Handale, Lingdale). Those rows were replaced with this reading.

Published by the admission authority. Meeting a criterion never guarantees a place — it sets the order places are offered in. Full detail, other entry points and previous years are on the Admissions tab.