Pukehou School Home Zone

PURPOSE AND PRINCIPLES:
A. To avoid overcrowding or the likelihood of overcrowding at the school.
B. To ensure that the selection of applicants for enrolment at the school is carried out in a fair and transparent manner; and
C. 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.

HOME ZONE:
All students who live within the home zone described below shall be entitled to enrol at the school.
The approved Pukehou Enrolment Zone will be bounded by and include properties:
„« On both sides of State Highway 2 from the Opapa Railway Station in the north to Rapid number   south of Drumpeel Road.
„« Both sides of Te Aute Trust Road.
„« Both sides of Boundary Road.
„« Both sides of Waikareo Road
„« Both sides of Pukekura Settlement Road.
„« Both sides of Middle Road from   in the north to Elsthorpe Road in the south.
„« Both sides of Elsthorpe Road from Te Kura Road to Middle Road.
„« Both sides of Te Kura Road to Elsthorpe Road
„« Both sides of Drumpeel Road
„« On both sides of Te Onepu Road to the top of the Raukawa range.
„« On both sides of College Road.
„« On both sides of Argyll Road between the College Road intersection and the Hickey Road intersection.

Proof of residence within the home zone will 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 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 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 siblings of former pupils.

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 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.