Entry guidelines

Where there are more applications for places than the total of 60 places available, these will be offered according to the following order of priority:

Looked after children (child in public care) from Catholic families.
Baptised children of practising Catholic parents/guardians who live in the parish of St Benedict at time of application and whose regular worship is fully endorsed by the priest’s reference form. N.B. Equal consideration will be given to the baptised children of practising Catholic families, who live within the parish of St Benedict’s, but who regularly worship at their own Catholic National Church, (e.g. Italian, Polish etc.,) or their own Eastern Rite Uniate Catholic Church. Any application received giving evidence of intended residence will be considered as a late application. (Regular worship means weekly attendance at Sunday Mass, unless there are exceptional circumstances, fully supported by the Priest’s letter).
Baptised children of practising Catholic families who live outside the parish of St Benedict, but who regularly worship. (Regular worship means weekly attendance at Sunday Mass, unless there are exceptional circumstances, which are fully supported by the Priest’s letter).
Other baptised Catholic children.
Catechumens (provided that they have been baptised before they start the school year.)
Other looked after children
Members of the Eastern Christian Churches
Other baptised Christians
Children who do not meet the above criteria

In each admission criterion priority will be given to the following factors in the order given:

(i) The attendance of a Catholic brother or sister at the school at the time of enrolment

(ii) No Catholic School in their own parish.

NB: Each case will be considered on its own merit. Where the offer of a place to all the applicants in any of the categories listed above would lead to over subscription, places up to the stated number will be offered to those living nearest to the school, measured ‘as the crow flies’.