The Education Minister has confirmed that boarding schools in rural areas are not part of the school zones starting next year however urban boarding schools will be included in the zones.
However, Filipe Bole stressed that from next year only new enrolments into class one and form three will be part of the school zones next year.
It is expected that by the end of Term two of the 2010 school year, the capacities of primary and secondary schools in the school home zone will be identified.
Schools will have defined school zone boundaries determined by the residence of a student and such zones will be called the "school home zone".
For schools in the urban areas, such zones would cover an area of two kilometers away from the school.
Bole also earlier clarified that there will be no restrictions on parents to send their children to schools outside the proposed zone if they can afford it.
He added that if space is available in any school then students from outside the zones can be accommodated.
He said the schools will make their own decisions.
Rural boarding schools not part of school zones
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