Enrolling your child
Enrolling your child or children at Ipswich West State School is an important decision.
Our school has an Enrolment Management Plan (EMP) in place to ensure that we can meet our prime obligation, being the provision schooling for students whose principal place of residence is within the school's catchment area. We do however, appreciate that many families who reside outside of our catchment are attracted to our small and caring school community, and may seek to enrol their child.
Enrolment process
In-catchment enrolment steps:
In order to enrol, you must have proof of a permanent residential address within the school's catchment area. To determine if your address is within the catchment area, use the Department of Education's edMap resource. If you do not reside within our catchment, we encourage you to reach out to your local school to discuss enrolment.
- Complete an Application for Student Enrolment. This can be downloaded from our website, or you can visit our school to collect a copy.
- Return the enrolment forms to our school office in person or via email. At this time, you will be asked to provide proof of your current residential address and a copy of your child's birth certificate, passport or visa.
- The enrolment will then be processed. For students commencing during the year, you will be contacted for an enrolment meeting. At this time, we will confirm your child's class and plan for their first day of school with us.
Out-of-catchment enrolment steps:
Out-of-catchment enrolments are restricted to ensure that enrolments do not exceed the student enrolment capacity. Our school can only accept out-of-catchment enrolments if there is spare capacity after reserving places for students who move into the catchment during the year.
Out-of-catchment enrolments may be received by our school office and will be placed on a waiting list. These applications will remain current only the school year in which you applying to enrol.
Enrolments commencing at the beginning of a school year:
- Applications for enrolment may be submitted from 1 March in the year prior to attending.
- Enrolment Conversations for Prep will commence in Term 3 in the year prior to attending.
- Enrolment Conversations for Year 1-6 students will commence in Term 4 in the year prior to attending.