Enrolment Zone Detailed Description

Paroa School (Greymouth) (3472)

Enrolment Scheme

Commenced 20 August 2024

The guidelines for the development and operation of enrolment schemes are issued under Schedule 20, Clause 3 (3) of the Education and Training Act 2020 for the

purpose of describing the basis on which the Secretary’s powers in relation to enrolment schemes will be exercised.

Home Zone

All students who live within the home zone described below shall be eligible to enrol at the school. The Home Zone includes addresses on both sides of the boundary roads mentioned in the description unless otherwise stated. Starting from the intersection of Main South Road and Jacks Road, the home zone follows:

• South along Main South Road until Clough Road

• East along Clough Road until Coulson Road

• South along Coulson Road until Fern Valley Road

  • • Including 114-120 Coulson Road,

    • Including George Glenn Place,

    • Including Kamahi Place,

    • Including Stratfor Mill Place,

    • And including Manuka Place

• South along Fern Valley Road until Rutherglen Road

• South along Rutherglen Road until Welshmans Road

  • • Including Gold Nugget Road

• East along Welshmans Road until Marsden Road

  • • Including Haydens Road

• South along Marsden Road until Ruther Glen Road

  • • Including Marsden Road to the north of Welshmans Road up untilAorangi Drive

• East along Rutherglen Road until Noname Road

• South along Noname Road until Fuchsia Creek Road

  • • Including Maori Creek Road up to and including number 874 Maori Creek Road,

    • And including OGilvies Road

• West along Fuchsia Creek Road until Camerons Road

  • • Including Noname Road to the south of Fuchsia Creek Road down to and including 216 Noname Road

• West along Camerons Road until Main South Road

  • • Including Sawmill Lane

• South along Main South Road until the Taramakau Highway

  • • Including Greymouth-Kumara Tramway

• South along the Taramakau Highway until the Otira Highway

• South-east along the Otira Highway until East A Road

• North-west back along the Otira Highway until the Kumara Junction Highway

• North-west along the Kumara Junction Highway until Serpentine Road

  • • Including Sanctuary Place and all the side streets off it

• North along Serpentine Road until the end of Serpentine Road

  • • Including River Road,

    • And including Puketiro Drive

• From the end of Serpentine Road jumps west to the coastline

• North-east along the coastline until on line with Clough Road

• Jumps from the coastline to the end of Clough Road

• East along Clough Road until Main South Road

Each year, applications for enrolment in the following year from in-zone students will be sought by a date that will be published by public notice in a medium appropriate to the area served by the school. This will enable the board to assess the number of places that can be made available to students who live outside the home zone.

Special Programmes

This priority category is not applicable at this school because the school does not run a Special programme approved by the Secretary.

Additional Entitlement to Enrol (Transitional Arrangements)

For families of currently enrolled students whose addresses become out of zone as a result of the implementation of this Enrolment Scheme.

Section 75 of the Education and Training Act 2020 states that; 

“the Secretary may authorise an enrolment scheme to permit a student to enrol at the

school as if the student lived in the home zone of the school if, -

(b) in the case of a new enrolment scheme, the student—

(i) lives outside of the home zone of the new enrolment scheme; and

(ii) has a sibling who is enrolled at the school at the time that the new enrolment scheme is implemented.”

The Transitional arrangements (“Grandparenting”) section within the Guidelines for the development and operation of enrolment schemes for State Schools further clarifies that in order to enrol as if the student lived in the home zone:

(i) The sibling must also still be enrolled at the school at the time that the student wants to enrol

If applying for enrolment under this part of the Enrolment Scheme, the sibling’s name and evidence of a sibling relationship may be required by the school.

Section 75 of the Education and Training Act 2020 sets out the definition of a “sibling” for these purposes.

The school will maintain a list of students enrolled at the time of the implementation of the enrolment scheme by the Board in order to enable determination of eligibility to enrol under this provision.

Out of Zone Enrolments

Each year the School Board will determine the number of places which are likely to be available in the following enrolment period(s) for the enrolment of students who

live outside the home zone. The Board will publish this information by public notice in a medium appropriate to 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 enrolments will be processed in the following order of priority:

First Priority This priority is not applicable at this school because the school does not run a special programme approved by the Secretary for Education.

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 any applicant who is a child of a former student of the school.

Fifth Priority will 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 any priority groups than there are places available, selection within the priority group will be by ballot conducted in accordance with instructions by the Secretary, under Schedule 20, Clause 3 (1) of the Education and Training Act 2020. Parents will be informed of the date of any ballot by public notice in a medium appropriate to the area served by the school.

Applicants may be required to give proof of In Zone address, or proof to support their application if seeking enrolment under the Out of Zone priorities.