Rationale
The Board of Trustees and staff of Churton Park 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 Churton Park School the roll will be managed to a limit of 462 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 Churton Park School 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.
Churton Park School’s normal geographic zone includes streets arising within the following area. The area is defined by the following access points and shown on the accompanying map.
- North from the corridor under the voltage transmission wires.
- East by SH1 – motorway.
- South by a line extending from the motorway (SH1) to the saddle where Ohariu Road crosses to the watershed for Ohariu Valley. This line includes Silverbirch Grove, Middleton Road (street numbers above 88), Chorley Grove, Te Kiteroa Grove, Cambrian Street, Atimira Close, Peter Button Drive, Cunliffe Street.
It excludes: Bassett Road, Hawtrey Terrace, Saville Row, Kerr Grove, Clifford Road, Ohariu Road
- West by the summit of the ridge separating Churton Park Basin from Ohariu Valley.
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.Out of Zone Enrolments
Each year the board 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 area served by the school. 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 at this school because the school does not run a special programme approved by the Secretary.Second Priority will be given to applicants who are siblings of current students.Third Priority will be given to applicants who are 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 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.
Approved: ___________________________________ Date: ____________
Jim Ogden
Manager Network Provision
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 e.g.:
- 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.
For further information regarding school enrolment zones refer www.schoolzones.co.nz/main.asp
Signed ……………………………