A written description of our current enrolment zone is detailed below.

6 May 2024 

Notification of minor amendment to Cotswold Mātāhae School Enrolment Scheme. 

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To confirm your eligibility to enrol as an "in-zone" enrolment, please contact the School Office by telephoning (03) 359 8035.

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Maximum Roll

The maximum roll in any one year will be governed by the organisation of the classes as determined by the Principal, in consultation with the Board.

Home Zone

The geographic area described in the scheme shall stand fast and shall operate as the school’s home zone, under section 11D of the Education Act 1989. All students who live within the home zone described below shall be entitled to enroll at the school.

All students who live within the home zone described below shall be eligible to enrol at the school.

Starting from the intersection of Highsted Road and Harewood Road,

• North West along Harewood Road to Watsons Road
• North along Watsons Road to Waimakariri Road
• North along the east side only of Waimakariri Road to Sawyers Arms Road
• West along Sawyers Arms Road to Johns Road (SH 1)
• North East along the east side only of Johns Road (SH 1) to Gardiners Road
• South along Gardiners Road to Styx Mill Road
• East along Styx Mill Road to Highsted Road
• South along Highsted Road to Glenmore Avenue
• East along Glenmore Avenue to Brockham Street
  • Including addresses on Mendip Place and Cintra Place
  • Including Glenmore Avenue between Brockham Street and Grampian Street
• South along Brockham Street to Veitches Road
• West along Veitches Road to Sawyers Arms Road
• West along Sawyers Arms Road to Highsted Road
  • Including address 233 Sawyers Arms Road
• South along Highsted Road to Bainton Street
  • Including Drysdale Street between Highsted Road and Reynolds Avenue
  • Including Reynolds Avenue between Drysdale Street and Ian Place
  • Including Ian Place
• South along Highsted Road to Harewood Road
  • Including Bainton Street between Highsted Road and Rolfe Place
  • Including Rolfe Place

Addresses on both sides of boundary roads are considered in-zone unless specified otherwise. 

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. 

Proof of residence within the home zone will be required.

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 a 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.

Priorities For Enrolment

Applications for enrolments will be processed in the following order of priority:

• First priority is not applicable at this school because the school does not run a special programme approved by the Secretary for Education.
• Second priority must be given to any applicant who is the sibling of a current student of the school.
• Third priority must be given to any student who is the sibling of a former student of the school.
• Fourth priority must be given to any applicant who is the child of a former student of the school.
• Fifth priority must be given to any applicant who is a child of an employee of the school’s board or a child of a member of the school’s board.
• Sixth priority must be given to all other applicants.

Applicants will be required to give proof of address or sibling relationship.

The guidelines for 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.