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Council membership – your site
The specific membership details for your council can be found in your site’s constitution.
The information below helps if you want to:
- change the membership of your council
- check that people are fairly represented.
If you want to know who is allowed to be on a council, take a look at eligibility for governing councils.
Example memberships
Just as every site’s setting is different, every site’s council membership can be different too. You can look at some site-specific scenarios in memberships of specific types of schools in the different constitutions:
- Governing council of a school with a school-based preschool model constitution (PDF 277KB)
- Governing council of a school without a school-based preschool model constitution (PDF 281KB)
Governing councils – a general membership overview
All governing councils must:
- have a minimum of 5 members
- be made up mostly of parent members, unless the site has mostly adult students
- have a site leader as an ex officio member
- have 2 student members at schools with secondary enrolments.
| Who | Optional/required | Minimum | Maximum |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parents | Required, unless site has mostly adult students | 5, unless site has mostly adult students | None |
| Site leader (principal/director) | Required | 1 | 1 per site |
| Community | Optional | None | 3 |
| Staff | Optional | None | 3, but depends on number of students |
| Students |
Optional for primary schools. Required for schools with secondary enrolments. | None | 2, unless site has mostly adult students |
| Affiliated committees | Optional | None | 3 |
Staff representation on councils
Staff members on council are elected by the staff of the school, according to the following ratios.
Total number of students (across all campuses or for each school) | Staff members that can be elected to council |
60 or fewer | Nil |
61 to 300 | 1 |
301 to 600 | 2 |
601 or more | 3 |
