INTERNATIONAL STUDENT APPLICATION

HOW TO APPLY

Thank you for choosing Hobsonville Point Secondary School as your destination school. We look forward to welcoming you! Before you start your application, please see the notes below.

Minimum enrolment period:

We accept enrolments of one term or more. We cannot accommodate short term enrolments of less than one term.

English language requirements:

We have not set English language requirement. However, students are expected to have enough English to engage with the school curriculum in regular classes with local students.

Before you begin your application, please prepare the following documents:

Current passport
Portrait photo
Last school report
Vaccination certificate, if available
Insurance certificate, if available* (Medical, travel and personal insurance is a condition of enrolment for International Students studying at our school. We can assist with this should you need us too.
Students wishing to stay in homestay should also complete a homestay questionnaire.

Medical Declaration:

This medical declaration must be completed and returned to the International Director in order for your application to be considered.

Application Process:

Login to Eschool and start the application process
Note: If you are an Agent, you will need to have a signed agency agreement with us in order to represent our school and send students to our school. If you would like to become an agent please click on the “Agents” tab.
Submit your enrolment application along with the required documents. It is important that all documentation is received especially the Medical Declaration!
The International Department will receive the application and review it. If there are any documents or information is missing, you will be notified of this.
For any students coming for more than one term, an enrolment interview will be arranged. Sometimes interviews are requested for one term students at our discretions. The interview will be with the International Student Director and conducted in English..
If the interview is successful, you will receive an invoice as well as a “Provisional Offer”.
Once the invoice has been paid and payment has been received, you will be issued a receipt as well as a “Confirmed Offer” so that you can apply for your visa. Once payment is received will will start the process of looking for your homestay if applicable.
Your application is now moved to “Pre-arrival”. Once you receive your student visa, please send a copy of this to us so that we can upload it to your application.
Once your visa is received you will be enrolled in our school and we look forward to meeting you!

To start an application, please click on the button below:

APPLY NOW

FEES

Tuition

1 Year: $17500

Per Term: $4375

Administration Fee (Non-refundable fee)

2026 Per Week: $400 - Students aged 14 and over

2026 Daily Charge: $57.14 - Students aged 14 and over

2026 Per Week: $450 - Students aged 10 - 13

2026 Daily Charge: $62.29 - Students aged 10 - 13

2027 Per Week: $420 - Students aged 14 and over

2027 Daily Charge: $60 - Students aged 14 and over

2027 Per Week: $470 - Students aged 10 - 13

2027 Daily Charge: $67.14 - Students aged 10 - 13

Move fee: $150 (To shift a student between homestays. A new placement fee may also charged. At the discretion of school)

Summer holiday hold fee: $80 per week (To ensure your room is held for the following year.)

Homestay Fees

*Subject to change without notice

NB1: Special diets will incur an extra cost of $50-$100 per week, depending on requirements (e.g. gluten-free, dairy-free, large appetites)

NB2: Late departures that require students to be provided dinner will be charged as an additional day.

1 Year: $2050

Per Term: $600

Fees were accurate at the time of publishing on 14 February 2026. Prices may vary. For current prices please contact the International Director.

Per placement: $500

Homestay Placement Fee

Homestay Administration Fee

Per year: $500 (for returning students)

Designated Caregiver Monitoring Fee

This fee is for students in designated care. This covers phone calls, home visits and other necessary tasks to ensure the student’s welfare needs are being met.

Per year: $350

NCEA Fees

Payable for all long-term Year 10-13 students.

Per year: $383.30

Insurance

Per year: $699 (Contact for quote for other time frames)

Airport Transfers

Pickup/ Drop off by school staff

Each way: $100

Extra-curricular activities and school trips

School trips and most extracurricular activities such as sports and music lessons, incur a cost. These charges will be added to the student’s account and are payable at the school kiosk or via SchoolBridge.

We do not provide devices for student use. All students are required to purchase their own laptop. Our school uses Google. Therefore tablets and iPads are not suitable devices for our school.

Devices

Accomodation

When studying at Hobsonville Point Schools, we offer homestay accommodation to our international students and they can choose from one of the following options for accommodation:

Live with a homestay family (school-approved).
Stay with a family member or close family friend known to the student’s parents. This person is called a Designated Caregiver and will be police vetted and his/her house will be visited and treated as a homestay would be.
Stay with their mother or father, who can apply for a Guardian Visa to accompany them to New Zealand. The Guardian cannot work while in New Zealand on a Guardian visa.

All families are police checked and live in the local surrounding area. We aim to go above the minimum requirements, and as a school and as a community, we want to provide a warm and welcoming home to our students. Auckland is a multicultural city and our homestay families reflect this diversity. However, our families all speak English and will only use English with their student.

If a student is staying in a homestay, or with a designated caregiver, an application form needs to be completed during the enrolment process on eSchool. Homestay students should also complete the homestay questionnaire below.