Priority Categories for Out of Zone
For the purpose of avoiding overcrowding at the school, an optimum number of pupils has been established.
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.
The board will publish this information by notice in a daily or community newspaper circulating in the area served by the school. The notice will indicate how applications are to be made and will specify the date applications close.
Applications for enrolment must, by law, be processed in the following order of priority:
First Priority
Will be given to students who have been accepted for enrolment in a special programme run by the school (note that this does not apply to Taradale High School).
Second Priority
Will be given to any applicant who is the sibling of a current student of the school.
Third Priority
Will be given to any applicant who is the sibling of a former student of the school.
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 a child of an employee of the Board of the school.
Sixth Priority
Will be given to all other applicants.
If there are more applicants in the first, second, third, fourth or fifth priority groups than there are places available, selection within the priority group will be by ballot conducted in accordance with instructions issued by the Secretary, under Section 11 G(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 will be required to give proof of a sibling relationship, or in the case of fourth priority, proof that a parent attended THS.
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