School Zone & Enrolment

Enroling your child at Edendale

We welcome all primary school-aged students within our zone to Edendale School. Please click here to see the boundaries to establish whether your address falls within the zone. 

We encourage you to pre-enrol your child and participate in organised pre-school visits to help settle your child into their new environment. Enrolment forms must be completed before your child can take part in these visits. Please remember that it is a legal requirement for children to be accompanied by an adult caregiver for the duration of each visit. We ask that you do not bring other pre-schoolers to these visits.

If you do not already have a child at Edendale you will be required to complete an Edendale statutory declaration for proof of address and have this signed by a Justice of the Peace or a solicitor; these forms are available at the school office. Please bring the following documents (originals, as photocopies will not be accepted) to the school office when enroling your child:

If born in New Zealand

1. New Zealand birth certificate or passport.
2. Immunisation certificate (not compulsory).
3.  Two forms of proof of address, i.e. utilities, bank statement or rates bill (we will accept tenancy agreements or bank statements with a signed statutory declaration). This documentation cannot be older than one month. One form of address must be an original, i.e. not downloaded from the internet. If your address is out of zone when the child starts school, and you already have a child attending Edendale, you will need to apply for an out of zone placement.
4. A completed Edendale Primary Statutory Declaration (form to be collected from school office or downloaded from here, verified by a JP and dated within a month of your child’s first pre-school visit with a current proof of address, i.e. utilities, bank statement or rates bill.
5. All documentation must be given to the office before the first pre-school visit.  Once all documentation has been received by the office, instructions for online enrolment will be given.

For all students not born in New Zealand

• Student’s passport showing their current residency and/or student visa.
• Parent’s passport showing current work permit.
• Proof of family relationship such as birth certificate.
• The same criteria for ‘If born in New Zealand’ information, numbers 3 to 5.

Once we have received the online enrolment, we will contact parents regarding pre-school visits if the student is a new entrant.

Out of Zone Enrolments

At this stage we are only accepting out of zone applications for children who already have a sibling attending Edendale. Out of zone enrolments can only be made for children starting school in the following school year.

This is not a guarantee of a placement if the child lives out of zone. The application will be held for inclusion in the ballot relating to the period during which the child becomes eligible for enrolment at Edendale.

As per Ministry of Education guidelines, out of zone applications are advertised in our school newsletter in Term 3, requesting a placement for the following year.

Please present the documentation listed on our enrolment page, plus the following:

1. A pre-enrolment form is to be completed. This is not a guarantee of a placement if the child lives out of zone.
2. Please attach a letter of application with the following information (this can be collected from the school office):
3. The reasons why you would like to attend Edendale Primary School.
4. The name of your closest primary school
5. Why you would prefer to send your child to Edendale rather than your local school
6. Whether or not your child has any specific requirements we should be aware of
7. Any additional information you would like to provide.

All original documentation must be shown at the time of enrolment. Photocopies will not be accepted.

Notice of ballot

The Board will publish out of zone information by notice in a daily or community newspaper circulating in the local area. The notice will indicate how applications are to be made and will specify a date by which all applications must be received.

By the end of each year the Board of Trustees 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.

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

First Priority 

• This priority is not applicable as the school does not run a special programme approved by the Secretary of 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 an 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 the second, third, fourth or fifth priority groups than there are places available, selection within the priority group will be by a ballot conducted in accordance with the instructions by the Secretary under Section 11G(1) of the Education Act 1989.

Parents will be informed of the date of any ballot by notice in a daily or community newspaper circulating in the area served by the school.

Applicants seeking second or third priority status may be required to submit proof of a sibling relationship.