Follow these easy steps to enrol your children:
Step 1
Download and complete an application for enrolment form. These forms are also available from our office. The school can help you with your application; please email highgate.ps.enrolments@education.wa.edu.au
Step 2
Submit your application for enrolment by email, along with copies of:
- your child’s birth certificate
- your child’s Australian Immunisation History Statement
- Current utility bill or connection notice
- Proof of residential address
- a CURRENT Rates notice or
- a CURRENT rental agreement
- If your child was born outside Australia or is a temporary resident of Australia, please provide
- Passport (Child and Parent)
- Visa Grant Notice (Child and Parent)
- or Australian Citizenship documents
Step 3
We will consider all applications for enrolment, consistent with the School Education Regulations and Enrolment in Public Schools policies, prioritising the local intake area, and considering applications outside of the local intake area where the school has sufficient accommodation to meet all local intake placements.
You will generally be contacted within 3 school days of receipt of the application for enrolment and advised in writing of the outcome. Please note, our office is closed during school holidays, emails will be actioned when staff return. If the school makes an offer of enrolment, you will be invited to attend the school for an interview, tour and to complete the enrolment.
While you are waiting for us to contact you, all school information including booklists, personal items, and uniforms can be sourced from Parent Info on our website.
Here’s what grade your child is eligible for at Highgate Primary School
Apply to enrol for 2025 in:
Kindergarten 1 July 2020 – 30 June 2021
Pre-primary 1 July 2019 – 30 June 2020
Year 1 1 July 2018 – 30 June 2019
Year 2 1 July 2017 – 30 June 2018
Year 3 1 July 2016 – 30 June 2017
Year 4 1 July 2015 – 30 June 2016
Year 5 1 July 2014 – 30 June 2015
Year 6 1 July 2013 – 30 June 2014
Kindergarten
Highgate Primary School offers a year of part-time Kindergarten. While it is not compulsory, most parents enrol their children so they get the best start to learning at school. If your child is four years old by 30 June 2025, you can apply to enrol them in Kindergarten for 2025. Applications for Kindy 2025 closed on 27 July 2024; applications received after this date will be added to our placement list to be considered for second-round offers. Applications for Kindy 2026 will open in May 2025.
Wherever possible, your child will be offered a place at Highgate Primary School if they reside within the school’s local intake area, however, if the number of applications for enrolment exceeds the number of places available you may be referred to a nearby Kindergarten which has places available. The School Education Regulations 2000 specify how we must prioritise enrolment offers for Kindergarten. Enrolment in our Kindergarten Program does not guarantee a child a place in a Pre-primary program at Highgate Primary School in the following year.
Pre-primary – Year 6
Every child of compulsory school age is required to be enrolled in and attend school. Once enrolment is accepted for Pre-primary, or directly into Years 1-6, there is no need to re-enrol each year. Applications for 2026 will open in May 2025.
Applications for enrolment from outside of our Local Intake Area
We consider applications for enrolment from students outside of our local intake area. Where the school has the capacity to accommodate these enrolments, while guaranteeing enough places for students within the local intake area, we will offer a place in the following priority order:
- A student qualifying for an approved specialist program for that year.
- A student who will have a sibling also enrolled at the school for that year, other than a sibling in an approved specialist program, and who lives nearest to the school.
- A student who will not have a sibling enrolled at the school for that year or with a sibling in an approved specialist program and who lives nearest to the school.
International Students
For information on enrolment procedures for international student and children who are dependants for visa holders please visit the Tafe International website.
Intensive English Program
Students wishing to enrol in our Intensive English Program require a referral from their current local primary school. Eligibility for Enrolment is determined by many factors including your address, citizenship, visa, and our classroom capacity.
Intensive English Centre Boundary Map - Please note: To find out if your address is in our area, please click on the 'Local Intake Area Map' link and type your address in the red search bar. If your address is in the yellow area, you are in our intake area. If your address is in the purple area, you are able to choose between North Perth Primary School and Highgate Primary School. If you reside outside of this area, we are unable to enrol your child in our school.
Highgate Primary School is a local intake school.
The principal will enrol an eligible child whose usual place of residence is in the local intake area for the school (Pre-primary to Year 6).
Please Note: Kindergarten is not compulsory. If you are in the local intake area and the school is at its maximum capacity of enrolled Kindergarten students, your child will be placed on a waitlist, and you will be notified when a place becomes available.
The school will enrol students under the following priorities (Pre-primary to Year 6):
- All children whose usual place of residence is located within the local intake area for Highgate Primary School will be offered an enrolment.
If, and only if, there is spare capacity:
- Students who live outside the local intake area, and who have siblings currently enrolled at the school.
- Further places will be allocated based on nearest to the school basis.
This map is provided as a guide. Please note that in some cases only one side of the street falls within the boundary. Further clarification of the boundary should be made to Highgate Primary School 9253 2700.
The local intake boundary is gazetted by the State Government.
The following defines the local-intake area of this school (YELLOW ZONE):
From the intersection of Vincent Street and Fitzgerald Street, east along Vincent Street to William Street, north and north east along William Street to Walcott Street, south east along Walcott Street to Lord Street, north east along Guildford Road through the subway to East Parade, south along East Parade to Pakenham Street, south east along Pakenham Street and its south easterly extension to the Swan River foreshore, south and generally west along the Swan River foreshore to the Narrows Bridge, north along the Mitchell Freeway to Wellington Street, west along Wellington Street to Sutherland Street, north along Sutherland Street to the Mitchell Freeway, east along the Mitchell Freeway to the Charles Street off-ramp, north along the Charles Street off-ramp and Charles Street to Cowle Street, south east along Cowle Street to Fitzgerald Street, and north east along Fitzgerald Street to Vincent Street. The boundary parts of Vincent Street (south side), William Street (east side), Walcott Street (southwest side), Wellington Street (north side), Sutherland Street (east side), Charles Street (east side) and Fitzgerald Street (east side) are included within the local-intake area of this school. The boundary parts of Guildford Road (both sides), Pakenham Street (both sides) and Cowle Street (both sides) are excluded from the local-intake area of this school.
Students who reside in the following area have the option of attending either Highgate Primary School or North Perth Primary School (PURPLE ZONE):
From the intersection of Charles Street and Vincent Street, east along Vincent Street to Fitzgerald Street, southwest along Fitzgerald Street to Cowle Street, northwest along Cowle Street to Charles Street and north along Charles Street to Vincent Street. The boundary parts of Vincent Street (south side), Fitzgerald Street (northwest side), Cowle Street (both sides) and Charles Street (east side) are included within this optional area.
Note
The local-intake area maps are based on a written description of the local-intake area (LIA) for the school as published in the WA Government Gazette. Although the map closely represents the LIA description, for some houses near the boundary (especially on street corners), it may be necessary to refer to the written description. The street address of a residence is used to determine whether that dwelling is inside a particular LIA. While local-intake areas for most schools do not change from year to year, changes may be made to local-intake areas as required. Such changes are published in the WA Government Gazette and subsequently the local-intake area map will be updated.