ENROLMENT
If you are interested in enrolling, finding out more about our school, or organising a visit, please contact our school office (06 374 9200; office@ruahine.school.nz).
We are zoned, but regularly advertise a ballot for out-of-zone places for New Entrants (usually in September for the following year). Contact our school office to find out more.
Enrolment Zone
Home Zone
All students who live within the home zone described below (and shown on the attached map) shall be eligible to enrol at the school.
The eastern boundary is State Highway 2 between the intersection of Laws Rd and Aerodrome Rd in the north and State Highway 2 up to and including rapid number 79185 in the south.
The western boundary is Pinfold Rd up to and including rapid number 924 and Valley Rd up to and including rapid number 917 to the intersection with Tamaki West Rd in the north.
Specific roads included are:
Tamaki East Road, Tamaki West Road, Otaria Road, Laws Road, Rifle Range Road, Kakahukura Road, Oringi Road, Gaisford Road, Old Main Road, Heretaunga Road, Maharahara Road, Loveday Road, Fairbrother Road, Baker Road, Kumeti Road, Thorburn Road, Coppermine Road, Corby Road, Settlement Road, Topgrass Road, Jackson Road up to and including rapid number 205.
Out of Zone Enrolments
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 a date by which all applications must be received.
Applications for enrolments will be processed in the following order of priority:
First Priority This priority is not applicable at this school because the school does not run a special programme approved by the Secretary for 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 any 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 ballot conducted in accordance with instructions by the Secretary. 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 give proof of a sibling relationship.
Buses
All children living within our school transport zone travel on the bus for free.
Children living outside the school transport zone are required to buy bus tickets. These are available from the school office at a cost of $16 per 10 rides. This applies to all children travelling from Dannevirke.
For more information regarding bus services please contact Ali in the school office (06 374 9200; office@ruahine.school.nz).