Enrolment Scheme Details

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Puketapu School.

Enrolment Scheme.

In accordance with Section 11A of the Education Act 1989 the Puketapu School Board of Trustees has being instructed by the Ministry of Education to establish an Enrolment Scheme to avoid overcrowding at Puketapu School.

The purposes of an enrolment scheme, as set out in Section 11A of the Education Act are:

1. To avoid overcrowding, or the likelihood of overcrowding at the school; and

2. To ensure the selection of applicants for enrolment is carried out in a fair and transparent manner; and

3. To enable the Secretary to make best use of existing networks of State schools.

In achieving its purpose, an enrolment scheme must, as far as possible, ensure that:

a) The scheme does not exclude local students; and

b) No more students are excluded from the school than is necessary to avoid overcrowding.

The Home Zone.

All students who live within the home zone as described below and on the attached maps shall be entitled to enroll at the school.

The zone is the area bounded by those properties that have direct access to the following roads:

Puketitiri Road starting from and including Quarry Ridge Road to number 1972 (including Soldiers Settlement Road),

Glengarry Road to number 775

Apley Road

Waihau Road (to number 197)

Dartmoor Road

Puketapu Road (to the crest of the Taradale hill

Springfield Road

Moteo Pa Road

Omaranui Road up to 30 metres past the Regional landfill on the Taradale side

Swamp Road to the Pirau Road Intersection

Apley Road; Dartmoor Road; Waihau Road (to number 780);

Current student addresses in above excluded areas shall be deemed to be in zone but only for as long as they contain children who, at the time of enrolment, are current students or siblings of current students.

Proof of residence within the zone may be required.

Out of Zone Enrolments.

At the beginning and at the midway point of each year the board will determine the number of places that are likely to be available in the following two terms for the enrolment of students who live outside the zone. Should there be vacacies, the Board will publish this information by notice in a daily or community newspaper circulating in the area serviced by the school. The notice will indicate how applications are to be made and specify a date which all applications must be received.

Applications for enrolment will be processed in the following order of priority.

First Priority. This priority category is not applicableat this school because the school does not run a special programme approved by the Secretary.

Second Priority Will be given to applications who are siblings of current students.

Third Priority Will be given to siblings of former students.

Fourth Priority Will be given to applicants who are children of board employees.

Fifth Priority Will be given to all other applicants.

If there are more applicants in the second, third, fourth or fifth priority groups than there are places available, selection within the priority group will be by a ballot conducted in accordance with instructions issued by the Secretary under Section 11G(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 may be required to give proof of a sibling relationship.

Enrolment Zone 2012

Enrolment Scheme Details