The SMSs will inform parents which school their children will be placed at for the 2025 academic year.
Online admissions for Grade 1 and 8 pupils in the province closed on August 14.
Chiloane briefed the media about the upcoming placement period on Sunday.
“Tomorrow, we are starting with our placement offers to parents, as we indicated that we will start releasing what we call ‘happy SMSs’ to those who have applied for Grades 1 and 8,” he said.
“Parents have seven days to accept the placement offers as final or provisionally accept an offer, which means the offer is accepted while awaiting other offers.
“It must be noted that when a parent accepts an offer from a school as final, the learner is placed at that school. Placement offers that are accepted as final cannot be reversed. Parents who applied to more than one school are encouraged to accept offers from the maximum of five schools they selected during the application period.”
Chiloane urged parents to visit the department’s admissions page to check whether their child has been placed in any school for the 2025 academic year, as not all of them will receive messages from the Department at the same time.
“If you do not get an SMS as the parent, go to the GDE admissions page and check if you have not been offered a space. Parents/guardians must log on to www.gdeadmissions.gov.za using their login credentials to either accept a placement offer as final OR provisionally accept an offer, which means the offer is accepted while awaiting other offers.”
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