Online applications for the 2027 academic year will open on Friday, 24 July 2026. The deadline for Out of Zone applications is Friday, 4 September at midnight.
Our Board of Trustees may invoke a ballot for the 2027 year. The timeline for this process is on this page. If you fall into a Priority Category (read below), you will need to provide evidence of this.
Friday, 24 July
Online applications open, the deadline for applications to be in is Friday, 4 September. Please note that our entire application process is online.
Prospectuses (which include instructions for applying online) are given out to:
If you attend a different school than those above, you can come into, or call our school office and ask for a Prospectus and application information.
Thursday, 20 August
Taradale High School's Open Evening from 6.30pm in the School Hall (to be confirmed).
Friday, 4 September
Online applications close at midnight.
Friday, 11 September
Letters will be emailed (to the email address provided in your application) to students who have been successful in the ballot, and to students who have been unsuccessful in the ballot (with the number they are on the waiting list).
If you have not received an email by this date, please contact THS on Monday 8 September by email, [email protected], and you will be advised if your son/daughter has been successful or unsuccessful in the ballot.
Letters will be posted to students who do not have an email address.
Wednesday, 23 September
Acceptance of place must be received, Taradale High School will tell you in your offer of place how to do this.
If an acceptance of place is not received by this date, it will be determined as non-acceptance and the place will be offered to another student.
Each year the Board will determine the number of places likely to be available in the following year for the enrolment of students who live outside the zone. The Board will publish this information by notice in a daily or community paper circulating in 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 enrolment will be processed in the following order of priority:
First Priority
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
Given to any applicant who is the sibling of a current student who is attending Taradale High School.
Third Priority
Given to any applicant who is the sibling of a former student who attended Taradale High School.
Fourth Priority
Given to any applicant who is a child of a former student of the school.
Fifth Priority
Given to any applicant who is a child of an employee of the Board of the school.
Sixth Priority
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 priority status will be required to give proof of this. If you do not provide proof, the application will go into the ballot and not be given any priority:
