Admissions

School Admissions

All of our school admissions for children starting school, or those transferring to school, are handled centrally by Cheshire East Council. 

However, we love showing people around Buglawton and we think it is really important that you come and see us at work to get a flavour of our school. If you would like to book an appointment, please contact the school office on 01260 633080 or email [email protected].

To apply for a school place for your child, please contact Cheshire East Admissions on 0300 123 5012 - if your child is due to start in Reception in the next academic year, you should automatically receive information about how to apply for your child's school place from Cheshire East. If you haven't, please contact them on the number above. 

As a maintained school, we follow the Cheshire East Local Authority Admissions Guidance. Further information can be found by following this link:  Application process for starting school in September (cheshireeast.gov.uk) or by contacting [email protected]

Important Dates

If your child is due to start school in September 2024, please make a note of the dates below:

East Cheshire Admissions apply criteria for applications.  The criteria applied (in order) this year were:

1. Children who are in local authority care or have previously been in care. 
2. Brothers and sisters living in the same household as children already in the school (up to and including year 5) who expect to stay at the school for the next school year. This includes foster and adopted brothers and sisters, step-brothers and sisters, and half-brothers and sisters.
3. Children living within the school's catchment area.
4. For high schools, children who are currently pupils at one of the primary schools the high school works with as a feeder school. 
5. Children living nearest to the school as measured in a straight line by the National Property Gazetteer. 

Catchment area:

Schools have a set 'catchment area'. This is usually the area that surrounds the school and where most children who go to the school live. 

But the law doesn't allow schools to keep places just for children who live in the catchment area. This means that:

• living in a school's catchment area does not guarantee a place at the school
• children who don't live in the catchment area may get a place 

If a school is not oversubscribed, you will get a place whether or not you live in the catchment area.

But if a school is oversubscribed, you may get a higher priority for a place if you live in the catchment area. This is because most schools include catchment area as one of the criteria in their admissions policy.

The situation varies from year to year at each school. If your preferred school's admissions policy includes catchment area as a criteria, you can check last year's school place allocation reports to see whether all children in the schools' catchment areas got places.

For Buglawton Primary School's catchment area map, please click the image below.

In-year Admissions

All in-year applications (those wishing to move schools) are handled through Cheshire East Admissions. Apply for an in-year school place

Preschool Admissions 

We currently offer 15 and 30 hour funded places and top-up places for 3 and 4-year-olds in our fantastic Preschool facility.

If you would like your child to attend our preschool, please contact the school office on 01260 633080 to discuss your requirements.

Please see our Preschool page for further details and to see the wonderful things taking place!

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