Enrolment Policy
Important Information for parents
Why was the enrolment policy revised?
Across the state, many communities are changing. Some are growing at rates never seen before. Some schools that used to be able to accept out-of-area enrolments, no longer have the room to do so. The revised policy is designed to support schools to manage all enrolment applications, encourage greater consistency in decision-making and make sure the enrolment choices are clear for parents.
What are the changes?
The enrolment cap
The enrolment cap is the number of students that can be enrolled at a school based on the school’s permanent accommodation. The enrolment cap tells us whether the school may or may not have the capacity to accept non-local enrolments. It is not a target or limit on the number of local enrolments a school can take.
Each school with a local intake area will have a cap set by the department from Term 4 2019.
100-point residential address check
Parents planning to enrol their child at a school that is near or at its buffer or cap will be asked to complete the 100-point residential address check to confirm they live within the school’s designated intake area.
This means parents will need to provide documents to verify the child’s current address. So that schools only seek information relevant to the child’s enrolment, a list of approved documents for the residential address check is available from the school.
100 Point Residential Checklist PDF
Useful information for enrolling at Bundanoon Public School
Moving overseas
Moving overseas and need school reports authenticated for DFAT?
Email document.authentication@det.nsw.edu.au to arrange to bring original documents to 105 Phillip Street, Parramatta 2150.
