The Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) wishes to remind parents and guardians that Phase 2 of the 2022 Online Admissions application period for Grade 1 & 8 will close on Friday, 8 October 2021 at midnight.

As of Thursday, 7 October 2021, our system recorded 250 450 applications made for Grade 1 and 30 409 applications made for Grade 8.

This brings the total of successful Phase 2 applications to 280 859. It is important to note that applications can still be made on www.gdeadmissions.gov.za.

Parents are also reminded to upload their documents onto our system when applying, ensuring that each uploaded document is certified for schools to verify them accordingly.

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The placement period will commence on 15 October 2021 until 30 November 2021, and parents who applied during the application period will receive placement offers via SMS at that stage. As the application period of the 2022 Online Admissions in Gauteng successfully draws to a close, GDE commends all stakeholders who were involved in this year’s application period.

“To the scores of parents and guardians who patiently followed the application process to completion. To our dedicated staff members stationed across the province who were always ready to assist parents through this process. We are exceedingly grateful to you all for having made this year’s application period triumphant.

“We are pleased with the success of the Online Admissions system so far, more so through the new two-phase approach which we introduced this year.

“We are thankful to everyone who played a role during this application period and we are hopeful for a successful placement period in the days to come,” said Gauteng Education MEC Mr Panyaza Lesufi.

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