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St. Joseph’s is a Roman Catholic School provided by the Diocese of Salford and is maintained by the Rochdale Local Education Authority as a Voluntary Aided School. The school’s Governing Body is the Admissions Authority and is responsible for taking decisions on applications for admissions. For the school year commencing September 2008, the Governing Body has set its planned admissions number at 45.

Admission to the school will be made by the Governing Body in accordance with the stated parental preferences it receives, subject to the following set of criteria which will be used to form a priority order if there are more applications for admission than the school has places available.

Priority will be given to all Looked After children who are Roman Catholic over all other Roman Catholic applicants. Then priority will be given to all looked after children who are not Roman Catholic over all other applicants who are not Roman Catholic.

• Baptised Roman Catholic children who will have a brother or sister attending the school at the time of admission and resident in the parish of St. Joseph’s.
• Other baptised Roman Catholic children who are resident in the parish of St. Joseph’s.
• Other baptised Roman Catholic children who have a brother or sister attending the school at the time of admission and resident in another parish.
• Other baptised Roman Catholic children who are resident in another parish.
• Other looked after children.
• Other children who will have a brother or sister attending the school at the time of admission.
• Other children.