School enrolment management plan
Overview
Woree State School
recognises as its prime obligation, the provision of access to an appropriate educational service for
students whose principal place of residence is within the school’s catchment area. Because of enrolment
capacity and growth Woree State School may be unable to meet this obligation in
the future, unless action is taken now to manage enrolments. Woree State School
has limited ability to accept enrolments from outside the catchment area. This
School Enrolment Management Plan (School EMP) sets out the conditions under
which students may be enrolled into Woree State School, subject to any other
requirements or limitations in:
This School EMP is
supported by:
Enrolment
Capacity of School: Woree State School currently has the capacity to enrol up to 996 students. The number of
students entering Prep in any given year is not to exceed 150 in six
classrooms, unless there are more than 150 students enrolling from within the
catchment area.
Local
catchment area
A school’s local catchment
area is the geographical area from which the school is to have its core intake of students. A
catchment map defines the catchment area for Woree State School. A hard copy of this map is available
at the school’s administration building and the catchment area map can be viewed online.
Enrolment
policy
Students
within catchment
Any student, whose
principal place of residence is within the school’s catchment area/s, is
(subject to the Education (General
Provisions) Act 2006) eligible for enrolment at the school. The school
Principal will hold places for students who relocate to within the catchment
area throughout the school year. Parents or legal guardians who wish to enrol
their child at the school will need to demonstrate that the student’s principal
place of residence is within the catchment area. Current proof of residency at
the address indicated can be provided by way of one of each of the following:
Required documents
When
enrolling a child there are certain documents that need to be sighted by the
school. These include;
the
child’s birth certificate
any illness, allergies and prescribed medications
passports / visas for children who were born overseas
permission for children’s photos to be published for media/internet use
any current legal access order details
one primary source showing address – a current lease agreement or unconditional sale agreement, and
one secondary source showing address – a utility bill (e.g. electricity, gas), or rates notice showing this same address and parent’s/legal guardian’s name.
If the Principal is not
satisfied that the documentation provided by an applicant demonstrates adequately that the address
stated is the student’s principal place of residence, then the Principal may request
further sources of proof of residence, such as an additional utility bill (e.g.
water) showing the same address.
The Principal may also
request a properly sworn Statutory Declaration from the enrolling parent or legal guardian attesting
that the student’s principal place of residence is the place nominated in the enrolment application. Applicants
should note that a false statement / assertion about the student’s principal
place of residence may amount to an offence and may be reported to police. The
school Principal may repeal a decision to enrol a student in such
circumstances.
Other
students outside the catchment area deemed to be eligible for enrolment
The following groups of
students will be deemed as eligible for enrolment, even though they may reside outside the
school’s catchment area:
Children and young people who are subject to child protection orders that grant guardianship or custody to the Chief Executive Officer of the Department of Communities, Child Safety and Disability Services (Child Safety Services).
Siblings of current students at the school. Where a school has both a primary and secondary campus, siblings are only eligible to enrol in the same campus as the currently enrolled student.
Students whose parent or legal guardian is employed by the school.
Students who live outside the catchment area and are verified with a disability can enrol in the school to attend the specialised disability program if it is the closest program to their home and meets their individualised needs.
Students
who have been excluded from a school other than this school, dependent upon the conditions related to the
exclusion, as determined by the Regional Director.
Out of
catchment enrolments
Please complete the Expression of Interest form for Out of Catchment Expression of Interest for Enrolment WSS.pdf and email info@woreess.eq.edu.au along with your child's most recent Report Card or deliver to our school office
Enrolment of students from
outside the local catchment area will be managed to ensure that the total current and forecast
enrolments do not exceed the school’s current capacity and, where applicable, will ensure there is an
even spread of students across year levels or class groupings. Students from outside the school’s catchment
area applying for enrolment at that school are placed on a waiting list in
order of receipt of application.
Fees
Under the Department’s State
Education Fees procedure, a principal of a state school is able to charge a fee for recouping
costs of enrolment processing by a State school with an approved School Enrolment Management Plan
of a prospective student who lives outside the school's catchment area, where:
the enrolment management plan permits the enrolment of a student living outside the catchment area based on cultural, sporting or academic merit, and
the
significant number of prospective students living outside the catchment area
and applying to enrol results in
abnormal administrative costs to the school, for example, enrolment examination supervision
and marking.
Acceptance
and assessment process
Out of catchment enrolment
applications will be recorded in order of receipt, by date and time. These applications will remain
current only for the school year in which they are applying to enrol.
Decisions
on enrolment
The Principal is
responsible for all decisions on enrolments.
Where a Principal forms a
preliminary view that an application will not succeed, parents will be notified
in writing. Parents may respond to the Principal’s preliminary view by making a
submission to the Principal, no later than seven school days after receiving
the preliminary view letter.
If no submission is
received, the Principal’s preliminary view will be treated as the final
decision and no further notice will be
provided. If a submission is received, the Principal will consider the submission
and make a final decision. A final decision notice will be provided to the
applicant as soon as is practicable. There is no internal review of the
Principal’s decision.
Gazettal
date
The School Enrolment Management
Plan of Woree State School was gazetted on 28 February 2014. The School EMP is
internally reviewed each year, and if required, updated to reflect any changes
to enrolment capacity and/or Programs of
Excellence.
This page content is an extract from the Queensland Department of Education website.