Are you in the Merrimac State High School catchment?
Prospective student's principal residence must be within the defined local catchment area, as per the Merrimac State High School Enrolment Management Plan.
First - verify if your address is within our catchment area, by looking it up online via the Department of Education, Training and Employment's EdMap website External link. Enter your full address via the left hand search panel, then select the heading 'Secondary Catchment' to confirm if you are within our catchment area.
- Yes - If you are within the catchment area please visit our Enrolment page and complete the online application. Note: To ensure that students who enrol under the category of local catchment are genuine local residents, we will ask to see a number of original documents with your enrolment application.
- No - If you are out of catchment but still interested in attending Merrimac State High School, there are avenues for Out of Catchment enrolments through our Excellence Programs (Summit Selective Entry Programs).
Out of catchment enrolments:
Must complete an Expression of Interest form and apply for a Selective Entry Summit Program, then our Enrolment Officer will get back to you with a response.
Siblings** of current students at a school who reside outside of the catchment are entitled to enrol at the school, (excluding siblings of out-of-catchment students accepted into Programs of Excellence and siblings of students who were placed at the school as a result of exclusion from another school).
A state school's ability to accept students who live outside its catchment area depends on whether the school:
- has capacity once all in-catchment enrolments are met
- needs to allow for students relocating into their catchment area during the year
- can ensure an even spread of students across all year levels while maintaining class size targets
- can ensure their out-of-catchment enrolments do not reduce their capacity to meet in-catchment enrolments.