Parents across the Western Cape who applied for a place in Grade 1 or 8 for their child for the 2025 school year can now accept placement offers. The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) is now releasing placement offers.
Only parents who submitted admission applications during the “on-time” application period will be able to view admission decisions from 30 May 2024. Parents who submitted applications after 12 April 2024 during the late application period will receive school placement offers at a later date.
Outcomes of admissions applications are available from 30 May 2024.
Parents must ensure they still have access to the WCED online admissions system. They must ensure that their contact details and passwords are still correct.
We encourage parents to check that they have their passwords to our online admissions system handy in advance of the offers being made and that their contact details are correct.
Accepting Placement Offers
Parents who receive placement offers must accept or decline them by 14 June 2024. The WCED strongly encourages parents to respond as soon as possible especially if they have received offers from multiple schools.
By accepting admission offers, parents prevent 'double parking' on the system, which temporarily blocks other learners from being offered those places.
Parents need to confirm their choice of school speedily when they have received offers from multiple schools. These parents are essentially ‘double parking’ on the system, stopping schools from offering these places to other applicants until they make their choice.
The WCED warned that if parents fail to confirm their choice by the 14 June deadline, the system will automatically confirm the top-ranked choice of school that has made an offer. All other offers will be removed to ensure those places can then be offered to other learners.
If a parent has not confirmed their choice by 14 June 2024, the system will automatically confirm their top-ranked choice of school that has made an offer. All other offers will then be removed, so that those places can be offered to other learners.
It's important to note that some parents will not receive placement offers on 30 May 2024. This includes parents who applied during the “on-time” application period. The WCED explained these parents will receive placement offers as soon as they become available.
Parents who do not receive an offer on 30 May 2024 should not be disheartened: thousands of additional offers can be made to parents who were not successful initially, as other parents confirm their choices and free up spaces.
The provincial education department reiterated its commitment to placing every learner at a school in the province.
We will leave no stone unturned in our efforts to place every learner whose parents applied on time as quickly as possible.
