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Choosing and Enrolling in a School

Your child has the right to attend the school in your neighbourhood area. If you don’t want your child to attend either the neighbourhood school or the same school that their brother or sister attends you can choose any other school that has space available.

The priority order for enrolment at schools with a limited number of places available is:

  • students for whom the school is the designated neighbourhood school
  • students with a brother or sister, who has the same permanent residential address, attending the school at the same time
  • when the Regional Director has restricted the enrolment of a school, students for whom the school is the nearest one to their permanent residential address
  • students seeking enrolment on specific curriculum grounds
  • other students in order of how close their home is to the school.

In exceptional circumstances, students may be enrolled on compassionate grounds where there are significant family or individual circumstances.

This allows you maximum freedom of choice while still protecting the right of all parents and guardians to enrol their child in their designated neighbourhood school.

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Applying to a government secondary school

If your child is now in Year 6 of primary school, an important decision must be made about which secondary school your child will attend in 2012.

For information about schools in the Western Metropolitan Region, see: Schools

To apply for your child to attend, see: Document A - Application for Enrolment, Year 7 2012 (Word - 105Kb)

For important information about your child's transition to secondary school, see: Document C - Applying for Government Secondary Schools (Word - 60Kb)

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Transferring schools

You can transfer your child to another school if:

  • you move house and that places you closer to another government school than the one you were attending
  • you are wanting to change schools at the beginning of the school year or at the beginning of Term 3 – provided that in secondary schools the student can be fitted into the existing school program
  • a student living in the neighbourhood of the school wants to transfer from a non-government school to their neighbourhood school
  • in situations other than those already mentioned if the principal of each school involved supports the request.

If a transfer is requested in circumstances other than those above, the principal of your current school will contact the Regional Director. The Regional Director, on behalf of the Minister, shall determine whether the transfer will be approved.