KAPANUI SCHOOL ENROLMENT SCHEME

The Kapanui School Board of Trustees manages the following enrolment scheme with the aim of maintaining the school’s optimum roll of 520--538 students.

The enrolment scheme consists of a defined home area based on geographic boundaries and provisions for enrolment to students based on defined preferential enrolment criteria.

The Board recognises the roll will exceed its optimum roll at times as the Board meets its commitments to siblings and students with close connections to the school.

Home zone

All students who live within the home zone described below* (and shown on the attached map) shall be entitled to enrol at the school.

Kapanui School’s geographic home area

The following description of the home area is used as a guide only. A map of the Geographic Home Area, held in the school office, is available on request and all eligible streets are located on this. Kapanui School’s home area includes families whose usual place of residence is within the area:

♦ West of State Highway One

♦ South of but not including Greenhill Road

♦ North of the Waikanae River

♦ Which has public vehicle access off Te Moana Road East of the Waikanae Golf Club vehicle entrance

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.

Applications for out of zone enrolment will be processed in the following order of priority:

First priority must be given to students who have been accepted for enrolment in the following special programme(s) run by the school and approved by the Secretary for Education. - “This priority category is not applicable at this school because the school does not run a special programme approved by the Secretary.”

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 must 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.