Essendon North Primary School's 2024 Open Day will take place on Thursday 18th April, with sessions running at 9am, 12pm, 2pm and 5pm. We look forward welcoming all prospective families! Please click the button below to secure your booking, and contact our office on (03) 9379 3979 if you have any questions.
If you have any queries about the enrolment process, please contact the school office on +61 3 9379 3979.
The Department of Education and Training (DET) has a statewide Foundation (Prep) enrolment timeline.
The timeline advises families when and how to enrol their child into Foundation (Prep) at a Victorian government primary school, including Essendon North Primary School.
You can find information and resources about the enrolment timeline and procedures at: Enrolling in Foundation (Prep).
While you wait for your own potential tour of Essendon North PS, please feel free to watch the tour video we created during the Coronavirus outbreak, in 2020.
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 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:
For more information on our school zone, refer to the separate section on this page labelled "Our School Zone"
Please use the Find My School website, to see if you are inside our zone or not.
These forms are also available in hard copy from our school's office
1) Please complete this Head Lice Inspection Consent
2) Please complete ONE of these enrolment forms below, depending on whether you live inside our zone, or outside our zone (see Step 1 above)
3) Please see our Enrolment Checklist, for any additional documents we may require for your child's enrolment
Bring all documents to the school OR download, fill out, and return by email to: essendon.north.ps@education.vic.gov.au.
Parent Payment Policy: Our Parent Payment Policy outlines ENPS expectations in regards to the financial payments requested of families in order to enable Essendon North Primary School to maximise student learning outcomes. These expectations align directly with Victorian Department of Education and Training. You can find this on our Policies page.
Essendon North Primary School has an enrolment ceiling. The existence of an enrolment ceiling enables our school to maximise the available learning and play space for students, and enables all students to enrol for whom the school is nearest to their permanent residential address. Where there are insufficient places for all students who seek entry, the following priority is used for determining which students should be enrolled:
The Principal has the right to exercise discretionary judgment on matters pertaining to enrolments that are considered ‘special circumstances’