Admissions FAQs - Queenwood

Applicants are added to the waiting list in order of application date; for entries into Kindergarten consideration is given to the time elapsed between birth and application rather than application date alone. Priority is given to siblings of current Queenwood students, daughters of Queenwood Old Girls, siblings enrolling together and applicants related to Queenwood Old Girls

Following receipt of your Application Form and accompanying fee, your daughter will be added to the waiting list.

Families are encouraged to submit an application prior to attending an Introductory Day.

You can register your intent to attend a Tour or Introductory Day via our website.

Parents and their daughter/s will be invited to an interview. Prior to the interview you will be asked to submit an Interview Request Form and accompanying paperwork including recent school reports.

You are encouraged to be candid about your expectations, aspirations and concerns so that we can address them during the interview. Both parents are expected to attend the interview together with the prospective students.

Following a successful interview, you may be offered a place at Queenwood. The usual entry points are Kindergarten, Year 3, Year 5 & Year 7, although other offers are made, at the Principal’s discretion, if places are available.

In order to accept a place, parents must return the paperwork included with the written letter of offer, including the signed Conditions of Enrolment and the Acceptance Fee Payment Form. Your daughter’s enrolment will then be confirmed.

Owing to demand for places, deferred entry cannot be offered.

Should a family be in the process of an overseas transfer and they wish to secure an immediate placement, a visit to the School can be arranged for a particular day followed immediately by an interview. Places are offered only if there are vacancies in the appropriate year group.

The entry points for Junior School are Kindergarten, Year 3 and Year 5. Interviews and placement offers for Kindergarten are usually offered soon after application.

Prospective students wishing to commence in Years 1, 2, 4, & 6 will be added to the waiting list and offered places should current families relocate and a place become available.

Entrance into non-entry years is on the basis of reports, and interview outcome.

There is an automatic progression from Queenwood Junior School to Year 7, Queenwood Senior School.

New Senior School students are offered a confirmed place on the basis of reports and interview outcome. Interviews may take place up to two years prior to students commencing at Queenwood.

Entrance during the school year is possible if vacancies are available and the Principal offers a confirmed place in writing. It is preferable that students commence at the beginning of a school term.

2026 Fees

An application for admission must be accompanied by an application fee of $300. This fee is non-refundable. Acceptance of an offer of enrolment must be accompanied by a non- refundable acceptance fee of $4000.

Once enrolment is confirmed, this fee is non-refundable. Where sisters are enrolled at the same time, there is a 50% discount on the second and subsequent acceptance fee.

Where sisters are enrolled at the same time, there is a 50% discount on the second and subsequent acceptance fee.