Gorse Covert Primary School

When there are more applications than places for 2027-28 (Reception), places are offered in this order of priority. Meeting a higher criterion beats meeting a lower one.

1. 1Looked after children and previously looked after children including those previously in state care outside of England.
2. 2Siblings — Siblings (pupils with elder brothers or sisters already attending the preferred school and expected to continue at the school in the following school year. This includes full, half or stepbrothers and sisters and foster brothers and sisters who are living at the same address as part of the same family unit).
3. 3Children of Staff at the School.
4. 4Pupils for whom advice from a medical practitioner or psychologist has been provided by the parents/carers at the time o — Pupils for whom advice from a medical practitioner or psychologist has been provided by the parents/carers at the time of application in support of admission to a particular school, which, in the Trust’s view, justifies admission to the preferred school. The Trust, if it is considered appropriate, will seek the views of the school medical officer or educational psychologist in the event of parents requesting admission on medical or psychological grounds.
5. 5Pupils living nearest to the school measured as a direct distance from the child’s permanent place of residence to the s — Pupils living nearest to the school measured as a direct distance from the child’s permanent place of residence to the school measuring using a geographical information address point system. Distances will be measured in a straight line from the central point of the child’s permanent place of residence to the central point of the school. (Central points are as defined by the Warrington Local Land and Property Gazetteer and distances are based on the same system.) Where a school reaches its published admission number from pupils within one of the categories listed above, those pupils to be admitted from within that category will be those whose permanent place of residence are closest to the school as defined in oversubscription criterion 5. Apply online until 15 January 2027 at warrington.gov.uk/schools 59

Oversubscription criteria as printed for this school in Warrington Borough Council's "Primary Schools Brochure 2027-28". The brochure states this is an extract from the school's own admission arrangements.

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.