Admissions Policy

Anyone who applies for a place at St. Joseph's will be matched to the criteria listed below.

St. Joseph’s is a Roman Catholic Primary school provided by Salford Diocese and maintained by Tameside LEA as a voluntary aided primary school. The school’s governing body is the admission authority and is responsible for taking decisions on applicants for admission. For the school year commencing 2010/2011 the governing body’s planned admission number is 20.

Admission to the school will be made by the governing body in accordance with the applications it receives subject to the following criteria which will be used to form a priority order if there are more applications for admission than the school has places available.

Baptised Roman Catholic children who are in public care.
Baptised Roman Catholic children who will have a brother or sister attending the school at the time of admission and resident in the parish of St Joseph.
Baptised Roman Catholic children resident in the parish of St. Joseph.
Other baptised Roman Catholic children who will have a brother or sister attending the school at the time of admission and are resident in another parish.
Other baptised Roman Catholic children resident in another parish.
Other children in public care.
Children with exceptional needs (please see passage below marked *).
Other children with a brother or sister attending the school at the time of admission.
Other children.

*Children with proven and exceptional medical , social or welfare needs will be admitted where admission to the school might best help satisfy those exceptional needs. Supporting professional evidence will be required. This may be from whatever sources the applicant feels are most appropriate. Examples of such evidence are doctors, health visitors and social services.. A panel of Governors will make a decision as to whether to admit a child under this criteria using the evidence provided. All information provided will be treated in the strictest confidence.

PARISH BOUNDARY
Parents should check carefully that they are resident within the parish boundary of St. Joseph’s Mossley. The parish boundary is the same as the town boundary.