Pine Rivers State High School
Enrolment management plan
The purpose of this plan is to manage the demand on the human, physical and financial resources of the Pine Rivers State High School in order to sustain the capacity of the school to deliver quality educational outcomes for each individual student enrolled and for the wider community it serves.
Since its inception in 1964, as the Pine Rivers District State High School, the school has sought to serve the needs of all those families in the Shire who wished to enrol. To that end it has offered both traditional and innovative programs of study to meet the diverse and changing educational needs of its community. Since 1978, it has shared that responsibility with the other excellent state high schools established within the shire.
A number of factors, including the recent rapid growth of the Shire population and the increasing tendency for students to complete five years of secondary schooling have combined to produce the result that the demand for places at Pine Rivers State High School exceeds the capacity of the school facilities.
Since the purpose of this Plan is to preserve and sustain the desirable characteristics of the School for the benefit of future students, the plan has been devised with close regard for those characteristics.
The school's strategic direction has evolved through a renewal process with a total school focus on the integration of information technology and multimedia across the curriculum to:
- transform the learning process
- promote lifelong learning
- promote further pathways for students
- build communities and
- promote social cohesion and ultimately global peace
Our school vision is: "Informed citizens building harmonious communities". We have developed a unique teaching and learning culture, that is:
By Different Ways to Excellence through:
- positive relationships
- diverse opportunities
- strong communities
- academic challenges
- purposeful links
- productive technologies
Our school is an inclusive school, where everyone is encouraged to pursue their talents and dreams to achieve excellence. The pathways that students can follow include academic and vocational, performance and technology.
Pine Rivers State High School recognises as its prime obligation the provision of access to an appropriate educational service for students resident within this community as defined by its local catchment area.
Because of enrolment capacity and growth Pine Rivers State High School may be unable to meet this obligation in future, unless action is taken now to manage enrolment.
This plan sets out the conditions under which students may be enrolled into Pine Rivers State High School.
The school currently has the capacity to enrol up to 1513 students in 72 classrooms.
The school's enrolment capacity for students who live outside the local catchment is dependant upon:
- the school's enrolment capacity
- catering for in-catchment enrolments
- allowing for in-catchment growth during the year
- ensuring an even spread of students across all year levels while maintaining class size targets
The local catchment area is based on equidistance boundaries with other schools. The attached map defines the boundary area for which Pine Rivers State High School (new window) 1.9M 
is the closest school by trafficable route. Should this capacity change because of changes to road networks, this will be formally notified through the registration and gazettal of an amended plan including the operative date for the new catchment area.
Programs for students with disabilities are regional programs for students whose educational support needs are additional to, or different from, other students. Students who live outside the catchment area and are verified, ok likely to be verified with a disability can enrol in the school to attend the program if it is the closest program to their home and meets their individualised need.
All students who reside within the local catchment area and are eligible for enrolment in the educational program offered by the school have a right to enrolment at the school. The Principal will hold places for students who relocate to within the catchment boundary throughout the school year.
Enrolment of students from outside the local catchment area will be managed to ensure that the total current and forecast enrolments do not exceed the school's current built capacity and where applicable will ensure there is an even spread of students across year levels or class groupings.
The school's enrolment management plan does not replace other departmental policy; for example Safe, Supportive and Disciplined School Environment, nor does it override subsequent determinations regarding built school capacity.
Students who reside outside the school's local catchment boundary who apply for enrolment at the school will be put on a waiting list in order of receipt of application. Where there is spare capacity, students will be enrolled from the waiting list based on the following criteria and order of priority:
- Students whose parent or legal guardian is employed by the school.
- Siblings of students already.
- Children and young people who are subject to child protection orders that grant guardianship or custody to the Chief Executive Officer of the Department of Child Safety.
- Students living outside the Local Catchment Area who, in Year 7 attend schools with whom Pine Rivers State High School has a traditional primary feeder relationship (Strathpine, Lawnton, Petrie, Kurwongbah, Undurba, Dayboro, Bray Park, Strathpine West, Kallangur, Bald Hills, Our Lady of the Way and Holy Spirit) who can demonstrate an alignment with our Teaching and Learning Centre.
- Students who in Year 7 attend a school in the Sunshine Coast South District who can demonstrate an alignment with our Teaching and Learning Culture.
- Siblings of students who have left the school and reside outside of the local catchment boundary.
- Students who reside outside the catchment area and who officially leave the school will be considered for re-admission in accordance with the enrolment criteria.
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School should select which documentation is required to be produced:
Parents who wish to enrol their child/ren at Pine Rivers State High School under the Enrolment Management Plan will need to demonstrate that the child/ren to be enrolled, reside within the catchment area. The following documentation may be required if requested by the principal:
- Rates notice, Electricity account
- Signed unconditional House Contract
- Rental Agreement stamped and signed by real estate agency for a minimum of six months duration
- Rental Bond receipt
- Registration on a State or Federal Electoral Roll
- Australian Citizenship, Permanent Residence status or eligibility under a Visa category
- Statutory declaration
Applications for admission into Years 8-12 will be accepted each year from the beginning of Term 3 for enrolment to commence from the beginning of Term 1 the following year.
Applications will be recorded in order of receipt.
Applications will remain current only for the year of submission.
All enrolment applications will be considered on merit in accordance with the enrolment criteria.
Parents wishing to have an unsuccessful enrolment application reviewed may seek clarification from the principal. Parents may provide a written submission seeking a review of an unsuccessful enrolment application. This submission should present evidence to substantiate a claim that the stated criteria have not been applied fairly and equitably.
The Enrolment Management Committee will review written submissions and the reply should be in writing within 14 days of submission.
The enrolment management committee consists of Principal (Chair)/P&C or School Council Representative/Representative of Executive Director (Schools)/Staff Representative.
Further appeal should be directed to the Executive Director (Schools) whose decision will be final.
Please contact the principal at Pine Rivers State High School on - Tel: (07) 3881 4700 should you wish to discuss, or need further assistance with enrolments.
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