Thank you for considering sending your child to Albany Academy. We are a very popular school and are usually full in our year groups. For up to date information about our pupil numbers please contact the main office on 01257 244020.

Application forms can be downloaded below or requested from the school office and for in-year admissions should be sent to the following address: Admissions, Albany Academy, Bolton Road, Chorley, PR7 3AY.

If you wish to apply for a place for your child for any year other than Year 7, please complete an application form and send it to the main office.

You can apply for a place for your child at any time outside the normal admissions round. As is the case in the normal admissions round, all children whose EHC plan names the school will be admitted.

Likewise, if there are spaces available in the year group you are applying for, your child will always be offered a place.

If you need a school place for your child you can speak to your local authority about the numbers of places available in your local schools.

Albany Academy is heavily oversubscribed each year. As such we operate a waiting list for admissions which will be ranked again every time a child is added, in line with the published oversubscription criteria.

If there are no spaces available at the time of your application, your child’s name will be added to a waiting list for the relevant year group. When a space becomes available it will be filled by one of the pupils on the waiting list in accordance with the oversubscription criteria listed in this policy. Priority will not be given to children on the basis that they have been on the waiting list the longest.