Lincoln Primary School has a clearly defined enrolment zone.

Due to our increasing roll, the Ministry of Education conducted a Zone review in January 2024.  The below zone will be adapted as of Term 2, 2024.

The purpose of the enrolment scheme amendment is to:

• avoid overcrowding, or the likelihood of overcrowding, at the school
• ensure that the selection of applicants for enrolment at the school is carried out in a fair and transparent manner
• enable the Secretary for Education to make the best use of the existing network of state schools.

Home Zone  - Amendment commences 29 April 2024

LINCOLN PRIMARY SCHOOL (3412) - Enrolment Scheme

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

Note that eligibility to enrol is based on the below written description of the home zone. Any associated maps are a visual representation of this description.

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

From the intersection of Gerald Street and Springs Road,

• North along Springs Road to Tancreds Road,
• South east along Tancreds Road to Ellesmere Road, including all addresses on Settlement Road
• South along Ellesmere Road to Edward Street, including address 705 Ellesmere Road
• North west along the north side only of Edward Street to Gerald Street
• West along the north side only of Gerald Street to the intersection with Springs 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.

Additional Entitlement to Enrol / Transitional Arrangements

This provision has been approved under Section 75 1(a) of the Education and Training Act 2020.

For families of currently enrolled students whose addresses become out of zone as a result of the amendment to 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, -

(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:

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 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.

For families of currently enrolled students whose addresses became out of zone as a result of the 29 April 2024 amendment to this Enrolment Scheme:

The school maintains a list of addresses that shall be deemed “in-zone”, but only for as long as they still contain children, who, at the time of enrolment, are siblings of students that were enrolled in April 2024 when the amendment was adopted by the Board.

Out of Zone Enrolments

For information on out-of-zone enrolment applications, please see this article.

To check whether you reside in our zone please head to Education Counts, a Ministry website.

Proof of residence within the home zone will be required for enrolment.

If you have any queries please contact the office admin@lincolnprimary.ac.nz