Auckland Grammar School

In Zone Enrolment

General Information

“Enrolment” occurs when:

• All pre enrolment procedures (including completion of all supplementary forms) have been accepted as completed by the School;
• Attendance at the School commences; and
• The student is first marked present on the School roll.

Applications for In Zone places can only be accepted once the boy is living in the school zone with his parent(s) or legal guardian.

Out of Zone Enrolment

Out of zone places are available to students who live outside the Auckland Grammar School zone and within the Auckland City boundaries, and who are not currently enrolled at Auckland Grammar School.

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 School zone.

Places are offered to applicants according to their priority group, and then according to their position on the waiting list generated by the ballot. Priority groups are prescribed by legislation and set out in our Enrolment Scheme.

General Information Out of Zone Ballot

For the Out of Zone Ballot, please refer back to the School website in June when all information regarding applications will be posted.

General Information Out of Zone Ballot

Applications Out of Zone Ballot are now closed. Please note the following important information:

• The ballot for Out of Zone places in was held on Wednesday 14 September
• All applicants have been emailed the ballot results

General Information Out of Zone Ballot

The Auckland Grammar School Out of Zone ballot for was held on Wednesday 14 September for all year levels.

All applicants in priority groups for Forms 3, 4 5 and 6 were offered places, along with the first 50 applicants drawn from the general ballot at Form 3. One place offer for Form 7 has been made to the applicant drawn first from the Form 7 General ballot.

All other applicants were placed on the waitlists for the respective year levels.

This page will be updated if any further places are offered.

Enrolment Scheme

Approved by the Ministry of Education on 15 August; and adopted by the Board of Trustees of Auckland Grammar School on 15 August.

The Secretary of the Ministry of Education (“the Secretary”) has given written notice that there is, or is likely to be, overcrowding at Auckland Grammar School (“the School”) unless an enrolment scheme applies in terms of Section 11 A to 11 PA of the Education Act 1989.

• Home Zone (“the home zone”)
• The home zone of the School is:
  • As described in Schedule I hereto; and
  • As shown in the map which is Schedule II hereto.
• Subject to the provisions of the Education Act 1989, any boy of secondary school age who applies for enrolment at the School (“an applicant”) and who lives in the home zone is entitled to enrol at the School.
• Any student accepted for a place at the School’s boarding hostel is deemed to be an applicant who lives within the home zone.
• Selection of applicants who live outside home zone
• Each year the Board of Trustees of the School shall give notice of:
  • The likely number of out-of-zone places to be offered by the School; and
  • The significant pre-enrolment dates and procedures; and
  • The date or dates on which any ballot will be held, as referred to in paragraph 3.5 below.
• 3.2 Notice pursuant to paragraph 3.1 above shall be published in a daily and/or community newspaper circulating in the area served by the School.
• 3.3 An applicant who lives outside the home zone is entitled to enrol at the School if he is offered a place at the School in accordance with the procedure set out in paragraph 3.4 and 3.5 below.
• 3.4 The order of priority in which applicants who live outside the home zone shall be offered places at the School as follows:
• a) First priority shall be given to any applicant who is accepted for enrolment in a special programme run by the School (as defined in Section 11 B of the Education Act 1989). This priority group is not applicable to the School because the School does not run any special programmes as defined in Section 11 B of the Education Act 1989.
• Second priority shall be given to any applicant who is the sibling of a current student at the School.
• Third priority shall be given to any applicant who is the sibling of a former student of the School.
• Fourth priority will be given to any applicant who is a child of a former student of the School.
• Fifth priority shall 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 shall be given to all other applicants.
• 3.5 If there are more applicants in the priority groups than there are places available, selection shall be by ballot conducted in accordance with instructions issued by the Secretary under Section 11 G of the Education Act 1989.

Refusal of application for enrolment

To every applicant whose application is refused or declined the Board of Trustees of the School shall give written notice of the reason why the application has been refused or declined.