The school is required by the Ministry of Education to have an Enrolment Scheme in place. The enrolment scheme policy has been formed for the purpose of controlling overcrowding at Fairhall School. It protects the rights of Fairhall residents to attend their local school.
View our Zone Map below.
Out of Zone enrolments for Term 1, 2025 have closed (12 September 2024).
Fairhall School (2839)
Enrolment Scheme
Commences 1 January 2024
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.
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 Bishell Lane and Battys Road, the home zone follows:
- South along Battys Road until New Renwick Road
- Including the southern side of Bishell Lane,
- Including Waters Avenue,
- And including Birchwood Avenue
- East along New Renwick Road down to and including 32 New Renwick Road
- From 32 New Renwick Road travels west back along New Renwick Road until Richardson Avenue
- Including Waikura Street
- South along Richardson Avenue until Spitfire Drive
- Including Richardson Avenue to the south of Spitfire Drive
- West along Spitfire Drive until Catalina Crescent
- South, then west and north along Catalina Crescent until Spitfire Drive
- Including Dakota Place,
- And including Hurricane Way
- West along Spitfire Drive until Aerodrome Road
- South along Aerodrome Road until the end of Aerodrome Road
- Including Green Lane
- And including Rosina Corlett Lane
- From the end of Aerodrome Road jumps west to Ben Morven Road
- South and then west along Ben Morven Road until Paynters Road
- Including Corletts Road
- North along Paynters Road until New Renwick Road
- Including Paynters Road to the south of Ben Morven Road,
- And including Bests Road
- West along New Renwick Road until its intersection with Godfrey Road and Dog Point Road
- Including all side streets off New Renwick Road between Paynters Road and Dog Point Road
- West along Dog Point Road until Brookby Road
- South along Brookby Road until Barracks Road
- Including Windhawk Rise
- South along Barracks Road until the end of Barracks Road
- From the end Barracks Road jumps north to the southern end of Hawkesbury Road
- East and then north along Hawkesbury Road until Dog Point Road
- Including Kahu Way
- East along Dog Point Road until New Renwick Road
- Including Dog Point Road to the west of Hawkesbury Road
- East along New Renwick Road Aerodrome Road
- Including Bells Road between New Renwick Road and Middle Renwick 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 ProgrammesThis 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 (Grandparenting)
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:
- Children who move into the withdrawal area after the implementation of the enrolment scheme boundary amendment; or
- Children of families/whānau who move out of the old zone after the implementation of the enrolment scheme boundary amendment.
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 will be required to give proof of In Zone address, or proof to support their application if seeking enrolment under the Out of Zone priorities.
Cohort Entry for 5-year-olds
From 2025, Fairhall School is moving to cohort entry for our 5-year-olds. This means that children will start in small groups at the start or halfway through the term. The Ministry of Education sets the dates. Click here to see our 2025 visit and start dates. Our new entrant teacher will be in touch before your child begins.