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Area school
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<p> In <a href="/facts/New_Zealand/4mpSlJdg">New Zealand</a> and <a href="/facts/Australia/qLHpbppq">Australia</a>, an area school is a school that takes children from <a href="/facts/Kindergarten/pLuerM4c">kindergarten</a> age (usually 4 or 5 years old) all the way through to <a href="/facts/Tertiary_education/WMN5RpeC">tertiary</a> entrance exams (at about age 18). They tend to be built in small towns where the cost of separate <a href="/facts/Primary_education/FnXkdxDW">primary</a> and <a href="/facts/Secondary_education/Cpsxkx3v">secondary</a> schools cannot be justified because there are too few pupils to have separate schools. These schools distinguish between primary and secondary stages internally but there is a single headteacher, faculty and administration. </p><p>The New Zealand Area Schools Association (NZASA) is the organisation that represents the interests of area schools, and concerns itself with educational matters in rural areas. </p>