All students who live within the home zone are entitled to enrol at Rangiora Borough School.

RANGIORA BOROUGH SCHOOL (#3481) Enrolment Scheme Commences 02 May 2022
(N.B. This update is to include Ngā Rākau e Rua special programme) 

We have one of two documents that need to be completed to show your intent to enrol at Rangiora Borough School, as an Out of Zone applicant or Within Zone enrolment.

Please complete the appropriate form (from download section) and bring with required documentation. You may also scan and email the form and required documentation once completed to office@rangiora.school.nz

Feel free to phone the school office for further information or to make an appointment to enrol your child.

Please bring proof of residence in the school zone (rates bill / power bill) and vaccination details of the child.

If you are out of our zone we do have a number of out of zone places available.  

Ngā Rākau e Rua is our Bilingual Unit and special character at Rangiora Borough School. Please phone the school office to make an appointment to speak to the Principal or Ngā Rākau e Rua's Team Leader Whaea Liana.  

RBS Home Zone

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

From the intersection of Oxford Road and West Belt
• North along West Belt to Blackett Street o Including address #145 West Belt
• East along Blackett Street to the eastern end of the road
• East through to the western end of Keir Street
• East along Kier Street to East Belt
• North along East Belt to Wales Street
• North East (across country) to the Coldstream Road / Golf Links Road intersection
• South along Golf Links Road to Kippenburger Avenue / Rangiora Woodend Road
• South East along Rangiora Woodend Road to Boys Road
• South West along Boys Road to Northbrook Road
o Including address #93 Boys Road
• North West along Northbrook Road to Victoria Street
• South West along Victoria Street to Percival Street
• South along Percival Street to Charles Street
• West along Charles Street to Green Street
• North along Green Street to Johns Road
• West along Johns Road to Treffers Avenue
• North along Treffers Avenue to Parkhouse Drive
• West along Parkhouse Drive to the end of the road
• North to the eastern end of Harrod Place
• West along Harrod Place to West Belt
• North along the eastern side only of West Belt to Milesbrook Close
• North along West Belt to Oxford Road
o Including Milesbrook Close
o Including addresses on the south side of Oxford Road from West Belt up to and including address #25 Oxford Road. 

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. 

Special Programme 

The school operates the following special programme; Ngā Rākau e Rua. 

The criteria for acceptance into Ngā Rākau e Rua is as follows:
All prospective learners will need to demonstrate a basic level of Te Reo Māori and be committed to learning and understanding the Māori culture/tikanga that is aligned with Te Ao Māori. The whānau are committed to using te reo Māori at home and agree to uphold the vision statement of Ngā Rākau e Rua. 

Entry will be determined and assessed by the Ngā Rākau e Rua Team Leader, Principal and a Board of Trustees member. An interview with prospective applicants may be required. 

If there are more applicants than spaces available in the programme, places will be balloted according to the criteria set. The number of learners who are able to join Ngā Rākau e Rua is limited to 60 places (see Note 1). Maximum class size - 25 Teina, 28 Tuākana. 

For learners who meet the commitment above, priority for acceptance into the programme is in the following order: 

1. Applicants residing within the Rangiora Borough School home zone and with siblings currently enrolled in Ngā Rākau e Rua. 

2. Applicants who reside within the Rangiora Borough School home zone. 

3. Applicants from our contributing Rangiora Kōhanga. 

4. Applicants residing outside of the Rangiora Borough School home zone and with siblings currently enrolled in Ngā Rākau e Rua. 

5. Applicants with extended whānau connections to Ngā Rākau e Rua, for example, cousins. 

6. All other applicants. 

If there are more applicants in any priority group than places available, a ballot will be conducted. Priority will be given to those where Rangiora Borough School is their closest geographical Reo rua provision. 

Note 1: The number for out of zone places will be determined following applications from in-zone students during the pre-enrolment process. Spaces available for out of zone learners will be published on the Rangiora Borough School website each year. 

Additional Entitlement to Enrol 

This provision was approved under Section 75 1 (a) of the Education and Training Act 2020 for families of currently enrolled students whose addresses became out of zone as a result of the 1 Jan 2022 amendment to this Enrolment Scheme only. 

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, - (a) in the case of an existing enrolment scheme whose home zone is amended, —
(i) the student lives outside the amended home zone; and
(ii) the student has a sibling who is enrolled at the school at the time that the amendment is implemented; and
(iii) the sibling, at the time that the amendment is implemented, lives inside the home zone as it was before the amendment; and
(iv) the student, at the time of enrolment, lives inside the home zone as it was before the amendment: 

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 change by the Board in order to enable determination of eligibility to enrol under this provision. 

Note: That this is a very tightly defined definition. It would not apply to:
1. Children who move into the withdrawal area after the implementation of the enrolment scheme boundary amendment; or
2. Children of families/whānau who move out of the old zone after the implementation of the enrolment scheme boundary amendment. 

Out of Zone Enrolments 

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

1. First priority must be given to students who have been accepted for enrolment in the Special Programme (Ngā Rākau e Rua) run by the school and approved by the Secretary for Education. 

2. Second priority must be given to any applicant who is the sibling of a current student of the school. 

3. Third priority must be given to any student who is the sibling of a former student of the school. 

4. Fourth priority must be given to any applicant who is the child of a former student of the school. 

5. 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. 

6. Sixth priority must be given to all other applicants. 

Before the application deadline associated with each pre-enrolment period, a Board must, by public notice in a medium appropriate to the area served by the school:
• confirm the already advertised dates for the receipt of applications and for the holding of the ballot.
• state the likely number of out of zone places that remain available. 

If there are more applicants in any priority group 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 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.