Further Placement

Parents whose children are on reserve lists will be offered a place for their children if their position on the reserve list is reached. Reserve lists remain active for placement throughout Years 5 and 6 provided that students have not already enrolled in another opportunity class.

If your application is in a zone with two or more choices, you may be offered a place at one of your choices and be placed on the reserve list for a school of a higher choice.

Students who have been offered a place and are also on reserve lists for higher choices will be sent further offers if their reserve list positions are reached. Such offers will be made whether or not previous offers have been accepted or declined until the end of the 2008 school year. After the end of the 2008 school year, no further offers will be made to people who aleady have a place in an opportunity class unless there are extenuating circumstance. In addition to the extenuating circumstances, there will need to be a vacancy, the student must qualify academically for the other opportunity class and principals of both schools with opportunity classes must approve.

Opportunity class placement cannot automatically be transferred. However, if your child is enrolled in an opportunity class and you are moving to another area where there is also a school with an opportunity class, you should write to the Unit requesting that your child be placed on the reserve list for the opportunity class at the school in the new area.

As schools with opportunity classes can have different cut-off scores, it may be possible in some cases for students who were offered placement in an opportunity class at one school to be unsuccessful at another school and vice versa. Irrespective of the student's place on the order of merit list, a vacancy must occur before any offers can be made.