Enrolment Information

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2026 Enrolment Timeline

Applications for Year 7 open one year in advance of school commencement.

Round 1 (Priority Round)

  • February 17: Enrolment opens
  • May 9: Round 1 applications close
  • May 21: Round 1 enrolment offers sent to pathway students and siblings
  • May 28: Round 1 enrolment acceptances due – pathway students and siblings
  • May 29: Round 1 enrolment offers sent to non-pathway students
  • June 6: Round 1 enrolment acceptances due – non-pathway students

Round 2 (Ongoing Placements)

  • May 10: Round 2 applications open
  • June 7 – Dec 19: Offers are made on a rolling basis as places become available

Please ensure your application is complete with all supporting documents and information by the closing date.

What will I need to enrol?

To complete your application, please provide the following enrolment support documents:

Required:

  • Birth Certificate
  • Two documents verifying residential address (e.g. utility bill, rates notice, driver’s licence, Centrelink statement, car registration)
  • Immunisation History Statement

If applicable:

  • Religious sacramental certificates – Baptism and/or Confirmation
  • Passport or Australian Citizenship
  • Visa
  • Family Court Orders
  • Academic Report
  • Latest NAPLAN report

How do I enrol my child?

Step 1: Submit Your Application
Complete our online enrolment application form and upload all required supporting documentation before the closing date. Required documents include birth certificate, immunisation records, and proof of address.

Step 2: Application Assessment
Our team will review your completed application and contact you to schedule a welcoming meeting with our School Principal. This allows you and your child to learn more about our school community.

Step 3: Confirmation and Acceptance
Applications are carefully assessed according to the Catholic Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle Schools Enrolment Policy. Successful applicants will receive a formal offer of enrolment. To secure your child’s place, an enrolment acceptance fee will be required.

 

Why Catholic education?

Catholic schools offer a unique educational experience which forms the student as a person of integrity compassion, faith, and wisdom. Catholics schools work closely with their local parish to enhance in students a capacity to make sense of their world, to make judgements and to recognise the uniqueness of others within a faith community.

St Francis Xavier’s College has a supportive community of teachers, parents, carers, clergy, parishioners, and support staff who work together to focus on students, encouraging success, promoting discipline, supporting creativity, and instilling compassion. The College seeks to develop spirit, mind, body, and character and cultivate Gospel values that support lives filled with joy, endeavour and hope in the future.

 

Does my child need to be Catholic to attend St Francis Xavier's?

No. St Francis Xavier's College is open to all who want to share its educational goal, inspired by Christian principles. In accordance with enrolment vacancies, preference is given to students who are baptised Catholic and who live in the local parish, and then to children of Catholic families from other parishes who wish to enrol. However, schools are open to all who wish to be guided in their education by the principles and teachings of Christ.

All families and their children, Catholic or non-Catholic, are invited to have a Catholic education but must be willing to participate in the religious life of the school.

 

Overseas students

A small number of places in schools in the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle may be available to students on visas who share our Catholic faith and ethos. At the present time, no students with a visa subclass 500 are able to be enrolled into diocesan Catholic schools.

For more information, please see the Enrolment of Students on Visas Policy.

Provider name: Trustees of the Roman Catholic Church for the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle

CRICOS provider code: 03339D

For more information contact the Catholic Schools Office at info@mn.catholic.edu.au

 

Enrolment Policy

In recent years the Catholic Diocese has received unprecedented demand for school entry across our Diocesan schools. This demand, combined with the desire to offer families a pathway for their children from Kindergarten through to Year 12, has led to the Diocese revising and adjusting the Enrolment Policy.    

The policy sets out the prioritisation for enrolment in schools and applies to all students seeking enrolment at a Catholic School in the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle (CDMN).

For further information on the enrolment prioritisation criteria please visit the Catholic Schools website at:

https://www.mn.catholic.edu.au/enrolment/enrolment-policy

A commitment to Catholic education when considering priority of enrolment for secondary education means enrolment at a CDMN primary school from Kindergarten or at least the commencement of Year 4 for priority enrolment for secondary schools.

 

Newcastle Catholic Secondary Schools
Over the next five years, the Catholic Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle is renewing its approach to secondary schooling in Newcastle to ensure it best supports the educational needs and outcomes for its students now, and as we look to the future. 

The Trustees of the Diocese have made the decision to transition all secondary schools in Newcastle to Years 7 to 12. The transition will occur in a staged and planned way.  

From 2024, Catholic secondary schools in Newcastle will be commencing a staged transition to Year 7 to Year 12 schools, this includes: 

  • San Clemente High School, Mayfield – with the inclusion of Years 11 and 12 
  • St Francis Xavier’s College, Hamilton – with the inclusion of Years 7, 8, 9 and 10 
  • St Pius X High School, Adamstown  – with the inclusion of Years 11 and 12 

 Find out more.