The enrolment area for Jerrabomberra Public School will not be changing next year after strong community backlash, but a decision has yet to be made on the intake boundaries for the new Jerrabomberra High School.
Member for Monaro Nichole Overall said she was pleased to achieve this outcome after more than 750 emails and survey responses to the boundary changes.
"I've spent the last three weeks endeavouring to do everything I can virtually every single day, taking it straight to the Minister Sarah Mitchell, who has supported me in this," Ms Overall said.
"I wasn't aware of the proposed boundary changes before they became public. The moment I was made aware of them, I immediately addressed this because I knew the concern and anxiety that it was going to cause in our community."
The NSW Department of Education suddenly announced that Jerrabomberra residents living north of Edwin Land Parkway would be excluded from the existing primary school and new high school from 2023, causing turmoil in the community.
Jerrabomberra Public School P&C president Kylie Prescott said the backdown on the primary school enrolment zone was welcome but it felt like they were "back to square one".
"We were here a month ago. And now we've got half the community zoned into the high school and half not," Ms Prescott said.
"Our message to the government and the decision makers is zone Jerra to Jerrabomberra schools. Our children, our families were offered a high school and we expect all families in Jerrabomberra to be able to access that high school."
The decision could put more pressure on the Jerrabomberra Public School, which already has more than 900 students and 15 demountable buildings on site.
Ms Prescott said parents were concerned that the first stage of the Jerrabomberra High School would only accommodate 500 students and called on the government to release the master plan for the school.
"It has taken us 20 years to get this high school built. I hope it doesn't take us another 20 years to have the school extended to stage two to accommodate those 1000 students," she said.
Ms Overall said she would organise a community meeting with officials from the department present to hear the residents' concerns about the new high school.
She said she had raised the issues of school capacity in the area with the Education Minister Sarah Mitchell, including the need for a new primary school in South Jerrabomberra in the future.
"We are going to be looking... inevitably at this point in time [for] more demountables that are going to be added to the primary school to be able to deal with demand.
"But we also need to be looking forward for the longer term future of this of this area given the growth that we're experiencing that we're going to continue to experience and what that means for the future."
Ms Overall said the department would be making changes to the consultation process to avoid similar problems in the future.
