Enrolment

We welcome your family to Mangere Central School and look forward to you feeling a part of our wonderful community.

Please refer to the below information relating to the applicable zone of Mangere Central School.

If you wish to enrol or for further information please contact the school office.

Entitlement and procedure to enrol at Mangere Central School

Mangere Central School has an enrolment policy in place to define criteria for enrolment. Admission to the school is dependent on where you live. Children who live in zone have an absolute right to attend the school. Enrolments for children who live in zone are accepted throughout the year.

Home Zone

All students who live within the home zone described below shall be eligible to enrol at the school. All residential addresses on included sides of boundary roads and all no exit roads off included sides of boundary roads are included in the zone unless otherwise stated.

For an interactive map and to search zone information for individual residential address please click here.

Moving out of the Home Zone between pre-enrolment and the commencement of attendance at Mangere Central School

The address given at the time of application for pre-enrolment must be the child's usual place of residence and is intended to remain the usual place of residence when the school is open for instruction. This means if you currently live at a Home Zone address but move to an out of Home Zone address before the child's first day of attendance at the school, the child will not be entitled to enrol at the school and the Board may withdraw any offer of a place made on the basis of the given address.

Moving out of the Home Zone after commencing at Mangere Central School

Only a child who lives in the Home Zone is entitled to enrol at Mangere Central School and because the Board has the statutory power to annul the enrolment in certain circumstances, all changes to the student's usual place of residence involving moving out of the Mangere Central School Zone, must be immediately notified to the Board in writing, along with an application seeking permission from the Board to remain at Mangere Central School.

Please note that this should be made in advance of the change to the student's primary residence and/or that listed on the Statutory Declaration.

Enrolment based on false information or temporary residence

The Ministry of Education has advised that parents should be warned of the possible consequences of attempting to gain enrolment by knowingly giving a false address or false information or by making an in-zone living arrangement which is intended to be only temporary.

Such as;

• Renting accommodation in the Home Zone on a short term basis
• Arranging temporary board in the Home Zone with a relative or family friend
• Using the Home Zone address of a relative or friend as an ‘address of convenience' with no intention to live there on an on going basis
• Using a Home Zone business address as an ‘address of convenience' with no intention to live there on an on going basis.

If the school learns that a child was not living at the Home Zone address given at the time of pre-enrolment, or the school has reasonable grounds to believe that a temporary Home Zone residence has been used for the purpose of gaining enrolment at the school then the Board may review that enrolment. Unless the parents / guardians can provide satisfactory explanation within 10 days, the Board may annul the enrolment.

This course of action is provided for under Sections 110 and 110A of the Education Act 1989.

Out of Zone Enrolments

Each year the board of Trustees 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 the 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 enrolments will be processed in the following order of priority:

• First Priority: This priority is not applicable at this school as 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 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 by the Secretary under Section 11G(1) on 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 will be required to give proof of a sibling relationship.

Change of Contact Details

If you change any of your contact details (such as address or phone number), please let our Office know by email on office@mangerecentral.school.nz.

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