The Gauteng Education Department said Boksburg High School has recorded between 1 000 and 1 500 applications for a single grade.
Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi briefed the media, on May 30, on the latest 2018 online application figures.
“To date, a total of 229 828 applications have been processed since the start of the online applications on May 2. This translates into 125 547 applications for Grade One and 104 281 for Grade Eight. Most of these are self-applications by parents who utilised the online system.
“About 45 000 parents utilised the 81 walk-in admission centres for help to apply online. We are excited by the overwhelming response by parents/guardians who have already applied and thank them for their cooperation,” he said.
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He reminded parents/guardians who have not yet applied to do so as the system will be shut down at midnight, on Monday, June 12.
The department has indicated that there are 391 schools with less than 100 applications, 249 schools with less than 50 applications, 204 schools with less than 25 applications and 58 schools with less than 10 applications.
“Similar, to last year, many parents in townships waited for the late application period or flooded GDE offices in January to apply for their children. We appeal to parents not to delay and try by all means to apply before June 12,” Lesufi said.
Parents can are urged to visit the schools below on June 3, where the admissions team will assist parents who have not yet applied, to apply online:
Parents can also apply online by logging onto www.gdeadmissions.gov.za. The placement process will start from July 24.
Parents should note that availability of space is the key determinant of how many children can be placed in a school.
Placement will be conducted on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Schools will start placing parents on waiting list A and then parents on waiting list B, subject to availability of space.
Being on waiting list A is no guarantee, however, that a learner will be placed.
During the placement period, principals will receive the approved and signed waiting lists from district directors to process offers of placements.
Schools will send offers of placement to parents from July 24 to August 10.
Parents are to confirm offers of placement within seven working days of receiving the offer. Parents not confirming acceptance and/or rejecting offers will forfeit the offer to the next parent.
Districts will finalise placement of learners not placed in schools from August 11 to September 20.
Lesufi said parents/guardians who will be seeking placements of learners at schools in January 2018, will have to settle for any offer available from the department and won’t have the opportunity to choose a school.
