Admission Arrangements

Admission Arrangements 2025

De La Salle School is a Catholic School under the trusteeship of the De La Salle Brothers. It is maintained by St Helens Council.  As a Voluntary Aided School, the Governing Body is the Admissions Authority and is responsible for taking decisions on applications for admissions.  The co-ordination of admissions arrangements is undertaken by the Local Authority.  For the school’s year commencing September 2025, the Governing Body has set its admissions number at 240.

Admissions to the school will be determined by the Governing Body. Parents must complete their home Local Authority Preference Form or apply online via the relevant Local Authority website.  If you are a St Helens resident and wish to have your application considered against the School's faith/denomination criteria then you should complete the faith questions on St Helens Preference Form. Other local authority residents should forward the documentary evidence that is requested to the School.

All preferences listed will be considered on an equal basis and, where there are more applications than the number of places available, the following set of oversubscription criteria will be applied:

1. Looked After Children and previously Looked After Children.
2. Baptised Catholic children living in the designated Parish(es) and attending a Catholic primary school of a designated Parish.
3. Baptised Catholic children who have a brother or sister at the school at the time of likely admission. This includes full, half or stepbrothers and sisters, adopted and foster brothers and sisters or a child of the parent/carer’s partner, and in every case, who is living at the same address and is part of the same family unit.
4. Baptised Catholic children living in the designated Catholic Parishes but attending another Catholic primary school.
5. Baptised Catholic children living in Parishes other than the designated Parishes, who attend a Catholic primary school of a designated Parish.
6. Baptised Catholic children living in Parishes other than the designated Parishes and who attend other Catholic schools.
7. Baptised Catholic children living in the designated Catholic Parishes but attending a school other than a Catholic primary school.
8. Baptised Catholic children living in Parishes other than the designated parishes but attending a school other than a Catholic primary school.
9. Children, other than Catholic, who have a brother or a sister at the school at the time of likely admission. This includes full, half or stepbrothers and sisters, adopted and foster brothers and sisters or a child of the parent/carer’s partner, and in every case, who is living at the same address and is part of the same family unit.
10. Children attending a Catholic primary school of a designated Parish.
11. Children whose parents express a preference for a place at the school.

 

For more information, please follow the link below to access Admission Policy on our Policies page.

 

Admission Appeals

Appeals for admissions to De La Salle School are managed by St Helens Council.  You can find out more information on their website here.

 

Useful Documents

Admission Arrangements 2024-25