Middleton Grange School Enrolment Scheme

September 2008

A requirement of the Private Schools Conditional Integration Act (Section 29) is that the Proprietor define a
preference applicant. A preference applicant is a family, which in the opinion of The Christian Schools Trust,
have established a particular connection with the school through membership of, or affiliation with, a church
having a Biblical basis of faith consonant with the School's Statement of Special Character as described in
s22(a) of the Integration Deed of Agreement.

The school's roll will be managed within the maximum roll prescribed in the school's integration agreement.

PRIORITY AT ENROLMENT

Applications for enrolment of children of preference applicants will be processed in the following order of
priority.

First Priority Will be given to the children of preference applicants for whom the school is reasonably convenient. [Note 1]

If including the children of all first priority applicants would exceed the School's maximum
roll then criteria for selection for these children will be based, in sequence, on the second
priority through to the seventh priority.

Second Priority will be given to preference applicants who are parents of current pupils.

Third Priority will be given to preference applicants who are: current permanent Board employees (halftime or greater),
Board of Trustee members, Board of Proprietor members

Fourth Priority will be given to preference applicants from another Network school [Note 3] for either of the following reasons:

• their child is graduating from their current school's graduating year level;
• a change in residential address which moves them into the inner zone of this school [Note 2].

Fifth Priority will be given to preference applicants from the school's inner zone (as described in fourth priority) who are any of the following:
a) applying to enrol a child already attending a school which is either:

• A member of the New Zealand Association for Christian Schools
• A similar school overseas [and at the time of enrolment will be a domestic pupil]; or

b) applying to enrol a child receiving home schooling consonant with the Middleton Grange School Statement of Special Character; or
c) parents of former pupils

Sixth Priority will be given to all other preference applicants from the school's inner zone. At this level,
priority in enrolment will be given to those who meet one or more of the following criteria:

• Enrolment is sought at the new entrant level
• Enrolment is sought at a year level where a place is available

Seventh Priority will be given to preference applicants from outside the inner zone but for whom the school
is reasonably convenient as defined in Note 1. Priority in enrolment will be given according to the criteria in the sixth priority.

Eighth Priority Non-preference applicants. Children of non-preference applicants will be enrolled only if:

• enrolment places remain after children of all preference applicants have been enrolled; and
• doing so will not cause the school to exceed the number of non-preference pupils allowed in its integration agreement.
  

Priority in enrolment among children of non-preference applicants will be given to
applicants who meet one or more of the following criteria:

• who are parents of current pupils;
• enrolment is sought at new entrant level;
• enrolment is sought at a year level where there is space in the class at that time;

Where the number of places available runs out within any of the priority levels two to eight above a ballot will
be conducted. Children of unsuccessful applicants will have their names recorded on a waiting list, within
their relevant priority category, ranked in the order in which they were drawn in the ballot. The waiting list will
remain current until the board next notifies the public that it is inviting applications for a new enrolment
intake.

PRE ENROLMENT
Each year applications will be sought by a date which will be published in a daily or community newspaper
circulating in the area served by the School.

No enrolments will be confirmed more than one year prior to the proposed date of entry.

Notes
1. Area of reasonable convenience. (Outer Zone) The area bounded by the Rakaia River in the south,
the Canterbury/Westland boundary along the Southern Alps in the west, Hurunui River to the North,
and the Pacific Ocean to the East.

2. Inner Zone
Year 1 -10
The area bounded by: the Rakaia river west of the Main South Road, Main South
Road, Blenheim Road, Curletts Road, Lincoln Road, Moorhouse Ave, Deans Ave,
Harper Ave, Carlton Mill Road, Rossall St, Strowan Road, Wairakei Road, Grahams
Road, Memorial Ave, Russley Road, McLeans Island Road, Haul Road, Waimakariri
River, and the Canterbury/ Westland provincial boundary.

Year 11 - 13
The area bounded by the Rakaia River in the south, the Canterbury/Westland
boundary along the Southern Alps in the west, the Waimakariri River to the North, and
the Pacific Ocean to the East.

3. Network School. A school belonging to the Christchurch Christian Schools Network (CSN). CSN
schools at the time of writing are: Canterbury Christian College, Emmanuel Christian School, Hillview
Christian School, Middleton Grange School, Rangiora New Life School.

Christian Schools Network (CSN) website.