Tamborine Mountain State High School Junior Secondary 
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Tamborine Mountain State High School Senior Secondary 2.9M
Background
Rationale
Enrolment capacity of school
Local catchment area
Enrolment Policy
Enrolment Criteria
Proof of Residency
Acceptance and notification processes
Review
Enrolment Management Committee
Enrolment management will enable Tamborine Mountain State High School to implement our curriculum program in an environment which maximises the use of the available facilities and grounds and accommodates students who live within the enrolment boundary. The policy has been developed in consultation with the school community and is supported by the P & C. Consultation has also occurred with surrounding schools. Feeder school principals have had an opportunities to commence on this document in drafting stages.
Student enrolment at Tamborine Mountain State School will be subject to the enrolment management process detailed in this Enrolment Management Plan.
From its inception, Tamborine Mountain State High School has focused on providing education to students from the local catchment area. The provision of an enrolment policy recognises the school's role as a government secondary school, and acknowledges its traditions and allied community expectations.
This policy will be reviewed in October each calendar year in consultation with staff, P & C and the local community.
Tamborine Mountain State High School opened in 1999 with a student population of approximately 150 Year 8 and Year 9 students. The school was designed to be an annex of Helensvale State High School, which is a large secondary school some 45 minutes away. In May 1999, when Premier Peter Beattie officially opened the school, it was announced that the school would move into the senior area in 2001. The first cohort of Year 12 student graduated in 2002.
The Tamborine community has a strong and passionate ownership of the school and collectively aspires to an exceptional performance level for its students. The school is well resources and technologically sophisticated. It has purpose built facilities for Performing Arts, Hospitality and Industrial Design and Technology. Also now completed are beach volleyball courts, multi purpose courts and an additional general learning block equipped with a state of the art computer lab as well as a well-designed design technology block and photography lab.
Tamborine Mountain State High School provides a quality teaching and learning program across the eight key learning areas for all students in Years 8-12. It caters for students with special needs, as well as the gifted and talented, utilising specialist teachers and facilities. The school participates in a range of state and national competitions. It offers a wide variety of Authority and Authority-registered subjects utilising a number of outside providers, where necessary including the Brisbane School of Distance Education and the Virtual Schooling Service. Vocational and technological education are high priority areas in the school's curriculum, whilst literacy and numeracy programs are emphasised throughout all year levels.
Currently the school is responding to the wishes of the community and focusing on providing a wider variety and quality of Arts programs which will enhance the unique artistic culture that already exists within the community. In addition 2002 saw the development of Tamborine Mountain State High School as a Soccer School of Excellence.
Tamborine Mountain 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 Tamborine Mountain 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 Tamborine Mountain State High School.
The school currently has the capacity to enrol up to 701 students in 33 classrooms.
The school's enrolment capacity for students who live outside the local catchment is dependant upon:
The local catchment area is based on equidistance boundaries with other schools. The attached map defines the boundary area for which Tamborine Mountain State High School 2.0M 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.
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:
Parents who wish to enrol their child/ren at Tamborine Mountain 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:
Applications for admission into Years 8-12 will be accepted each year from the beginning of Term 1 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 Tamborine Mountain State High School on - Tel: (07) 3480 9111 should you wish to discuss, or need further assistance with enrolments.
This page was last reviewed on 18 Oct 2011 at 12:00PM
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