Gauteng Education MEC Matome Chiloane interacts with parents during the opening of the online admissions for grades one and eight in Winterveldt on 15 June 2023.Parents for Grade 1 and 8 learners have until today to submit their online admission applications for the 2025 academic year.
The extension follows the State Information Technology Agency’s upgrade of its Data Centre infrastructure, which resulted in a complete shutdown of all applications and equipment at SITA on the 8th of August.The department received more than 768 000 Grade 1 and 8 applications for admission to the 2025 academic year. This is an increase of more than 11 000 applications received in 2023 for the 2024 academic year.
Parents and guardians who have already applied to schools are reminded that certified copies of documents must be submitted to schools or uploaded before the cut-off date. Applicants who have uploaded or submitted fraudulent or invalid documents will forfeit the opportunity to receive placement offers. Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.