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ENROLMENT POLICYOnewhero Area School Policy Legislation and Regulations (National Administration Guideline 6) Rationale The Board of Trustees and staff of Onewhero Area School are committed to providing quality education for all children in the school. There is an optimum roll figure that is determined by the physical resources of the school. Above this, the quality of education delivered to the children is diminished. This enrolment scheme aims to avoid overcrowding by restricting the number of children enrolled at the school. Roll To avoid overcrowding at Onewhero Area School the roll will be managed to a limit of 450 children, which is the maximum number of children we can accommodate within our present classroom space. Objectives • To maintain the highest possible standard of education delivery to the children attending the school. • To avoid overcrowding at the school. • To ensure that undue pressure is not placed on the resources of the school. • If required, to limit numbers of children enrolling, using pre-established criteria. • To give priority of entry to those children living within the school zone. • To maintain some flexibility in enrolments, in order not to exclude more children than is necessary to meet the above objectives. The Onewhero Area School Home Zone Home Zone Enrolments Each year, applications for enrolment in the following year from in-zone students will be sought by a date which will be published in a daily or community newspaper circulating in the area served by the school. This will enable the board to assess the number of places which can be made available to students who live outside the home zone. Home Zone All students who live within the home zone described below (and/or shown on the attached map) shall be entitled to enrol at the school. Years 1-6 (MAP)
Year 7-13 (MAP)
Out of Zone Enrolments Each year the Board of Trustees will determine the number of places which are likely to be available in the following year for the enrolment of students who live outside the home zone. The board will publish this information by notice in a daily or community newspaper circulating in the local area. The notice will indicate how applications are to be made and will specify a date by which all applications must be received. Application for enrolment will be processed in the following order of priority: First Priority: This priority category is not applicable as this school because the school does not run a special programme approved by the Secretary for Education. Second Priority: must be given to applicants who are siblings of current students. Third Priority: must be given to applicants who are siblings of former students. Fourth Priority: must be given to any applicant who is a child of a former student of the school. Fifth Priority: must be given to any applicant who is either a child of an employee of the board of the school or a child of a member of the board of the school. Sixth Priority: will be given to all other applicants If there are more applicants in the second, third, fourth, fifth or sixth priority groups than there are places available, selection within the priority group will be by a ballot conducted in accordance with instructions by the Secretary under Section 1 I G(1) of the Education Act 1989. Parents will be informed of the date of any ballot by notice in a daily or community newspaper circulating in the area served by the school. Applicants seeking second or third priority status will be required to give proof of a sibling relationship. Enrolment Scheme Management In operating enrolment schemes, boards must manage enrolments in such a way that overcrowding or the likelihood of overcrowding is avoided, not only in the current year but in future years as well. It is Ministry policy not to provide roll growth accommodation where a school roll has exceeded its accommodation capacity as result of out of zone enrolments. Where foreign fee paying students are enrolled, tuition and space for such students are to be funded entirely from fees or locally raised funds. Consequently, the likelihood of overcrowding relates only to domestic and exempt students. Review of Enrolment Scheme Manager Network Provision Before 1 May each year the board is required to review the operation of its enrolment scheme and to consider whether there is a continuing need for the scheme. I have delegated authority, however, to exempt a board from this requirement for a period not exceeding three years. In the first instance, you will need to review the operation of your scheme by 1 May 2011. You will receive information about the review process early in that year. Approved: ____________________________ Board of Trustees Chairperson Date: ____14/04/11____________ Reviewed on 3 May 2011. Next review date: 1 May 2012. Ministry of Education statement to be provided to parents at the time of application for enrolment. The address given at the time of application for enrolment must be the student's usual place of residence when the school is open for instruction. This means that if you currently live at an in-zone address but move to an out-of-zone address before your child's first day of attendance at the school, your child will not be entitled to enrol at the school. The Ministry of Education has advised that parents should also be warned of the possible consequences of deliberately attempting to gain unfair priority in enrolment by knowingly giving a false address or making an in-zone living arrangement which they intend to be only temporary eg: • renting accommodation in-zone on a short-term basis; • arranging temporary board in-zone with a relative or family friend; • using the in-zone address of a relative or friend as an 'address of convenience', with no intention to live there on an ongoing basis. If the school learns that a student is no longer living at the in-zone address given at the time of application for enrolment and has reasonable grounds to believe that a temporary in-zone residence has been used for the purpose of unfairly gaining priority in enrolment at the school, then the board may review the enrolment. Unless the parents can give a satisfactory explanation within 10 days, the board may annul the enrolment. This course of action is provided for under section 110A of the Education Act 1989. I confirm that the address which I have provided to the school will be the usual place of residence of .............................................. (student's name) when the school is open for instruction. I will advise the school of any subsequent change of address. |
