Admissions

Admissions into school:

Children can attend Reception education the September immediately after their fourth birthday. To apply for a place in Reception for your child to start of the beginning of the academic school year parents and carers must apply to Lancashire County Council. This can be done online following the link here.

Parents wanting a place for their child at any other time in the school year should contact the school directly to make an appointment with the Head. This will give parents an opportunity to look around Cobbs Brow and school can answer any queries you may have. We also offer an ‘Open Day’ which is held early in the Autumn term for parents to see the school. Parents wanting to change schools must complete an in year application form from Lancashire County Council. This can be found here.

The school has an official intake number of 40 children.

LCC Guidance and policy

An admission number will be published showing the maximum number of pupils that the school will admit in the Autumn Term 2026. Parents are given the opportunity to express three preferences for a primary school. Published criteria are used to decide which children should be offered the available places.  In primary schools, an equal preference scheme is operated to comply with the Schools Admission Code, whereby three parental preferences are given equal status and are considered equally against the admissions criteria.  If a school is oversubscribed, the following criteria will be applied in priority order:

When a school is oversubscribed on parental preferences, then the following priorities apply in order:

1.  Looked after children or a child who was previously looked after, but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, child arrangement order, or special guardianship order or those children who appear to the school to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted, then
2. Children for whom the Local Authority accepts that there are exceptional medical, social or welfare reasons which are directly relevant to the school concerned, then
3. Children eligible for Services Premium, then
4. Children with older brothers and sisters attending the school when the younger child will start, then
5. Remaining places are allocated according to where a child lives. Those living nearest to the preferred school by a straight line (radial) measure will have priority.

For further information please click here.

In Year Admissions

If you wish your child to attend Cobbs Brow Primary School mid year, please contact school. You will need to apply for a place via Lancashire County Council. Please click here to apply for mid-year admissions.

Acorns Nursery

We offer nursery provision 2 and/or 3 year olds. If you are interested in Cobbs Brow Acorns Nursery please contact school on 01695 720632 for application forms and further details. If we become oversubscribed school follows the same criteria for admissions as LCC.

Appeals

Parents not given their choice of school have the right of appeal. Details of this procedure are available from Lancashire County Council website.  Please follow the link here.