School Zone

School Zone

Manor Lakes P-12 College is currently under an Enrolment Management Implementation Plan. This means that entry criteria to Manor Lakes P-12 College has been provided under section 2.2.16 of the Education and Training Reform Act 2006 (Vic). Approved entry criteria for our school are:

• • Students who live within the school zone (guaranteed entry)
  • Students with a sibling attending the school at the same time (priority 1 of the priority order of placement)
  • Students seeking enrolment on compassionate grounds (if approved).

Students seeking placement in all year levels must meet one of the above criteria to be eligible for enrolment.

Our school zone is available on findmyschool.vic.gov.au which hosts the most up-to-date information on school zones in Victoria.

Students residing within our school zone are guaranteed a place at our school, which is determined on the basis of your permanent residential address.

Our school manages enrolments using the DE Placement Policy to ensure that students have access to their designated neighbourhood school and may enrol at another school, if there are available places.

For more information, you can:

• • visit School Zones for answers to frequently asked questions
  • call the School Provision and Establishment Division via the Victorian School Building Authority (VSBA) on 1800 896 950
  • email the VSBA at vsba@education.vic.gov.au

Priority order of placement

Eligible children and young persons have the right to be admitted to their designated neighbourhood government school, regardless of capacity.

In circumstances where schools do not have sufficient accommodation to accept all students who apply from outside their school zone, schools must manage enrolment applications in accordance with the following priority order of placement:

• • students with a sibling at the same permanent address who are attending the school at the same time
  • all other students in order of closeness of their home to the school.

In exceptional circumstances, a student may be enrolled in a school based on compassionate grounds. This is an overarching consideration and does not form part of the priority order of placement. Further information is available in the DE Placement Policy under ‘Exceptional circumstances – compassionate grounds’.