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Admissions

St Benedict’s School is an 11-18 co-educational Roman Catholic Secondary School under the trusteeship of the Diocese of Lancaster. As a Voluntary Aided school, the Governing Body of St Benedict’s School is the Admissions Authority and is responsible for taking decisions on applications for admissions. The co-ordination of admission arrangements is undertaken by the Local Authority (Cumberland Council) 

For the school year commencing September 2025, the Governing Body has set the Year 7 admission number at 186.

Important Dates:

Application Deadline – 31st October 2024
Allocation Date – 1st March 2025

To read our full Admissions Policy, please visit our Policy Page – Click here

For more information contact us via e-mail on year7admissions@st-benedicts.cumbria.sch.uk or call 01946 692275 .

For further information on Cumberland Council’s Admissions Process, please visit their website – Click here

For further information on Cumberland Council’s Appeals Process and timetable, please visit their website – Click here

Below is a copy of Cumberland Council’s Appeals Timetable for September 2025 applicants:

2025 MAIN ADMISSIONS ROUND APPEALS SCHEDULE FOR COMMUNITY AND VOLUNTARY CONTROLLED SCHOOLS

 

 

Transfer to secondary school September 2025

1

Applicants who applied before the relevant closing dates informed of outcome of applications¹

3 March 2025

2

Deadline for lodging appeals – 28 days after notification date (above)² and ³

  29 March 2025

3

Allow parents at least 14 days’ notice of appeal – appeals commence:

  12 April 2025

4

Appeals must be heard within 40 school days of the deadline for lodging appeals – appeals will be heard by:

 14 June 2025

 

¹ – School Admissions Code 2021, 2.12  and Determined Co-ordinated Admission Scheme for all Maintained Schools and Academies in the Area of Cumberland Council 2025/26:

  • Offers of secondary school places must be made on 1 March or the ‘next working day’.
  • Offers of infant/primary school places and junior/primary school places must be made on 16 April or the ‘next working day’.
  • Admission Authorities are required to publish their appeals timetable on their website by 28 February each year.

² – School Admissions Appeals Code 2022, 2.3 (b) – ‘for late applications, appeals should be heard within 40 school days of the deadline for lodging appeals where possible, or within 30 days of the appeal being lodged’.

³ – School Admissions Appeals Code 2022, 2.4 – ‘Any appeals submitted after the appropriate deadline must still be heard, in accordance with whatever timescale is set out in the timetable published by the admission authority’.  Main admission round appeals submitted after the deadline date in each of the admissions rounds above will be heard within 30 school days of the relevant date for appeals to commence (row 3 of the table above).