Reserve Lists: General Information

Note this information refers to Year 7 entry in 2009.

Where a student has been placed on a reserve list the outcome advice shows a number next to 'Reserve'. This number indicates the position on the reserve list.  A student will receive an offer if his or her position on the reserve list is reached.  Offers from the reserve list do not normally begin before August.

The movement through the reserve list, and the length of each reserve list, varies from year to year and from school to school. Progress through the reserve list is determined by students accepting offers; declining offers or receiving offers to a higher choice school.

Note:

• Students on the reserve list will not necessarily be offered a place.
• You will be contacted by the Selective High School and Opportunity Class Placement Unit if the student's position on the reserve list is reached.
• Appeals or approved changes of choice may result in students being added to the reserve list. Later in the placement process there may be more than one student on a particular number on the reserve list.
• After the end of the 2008 school year, students who have already accepted an offer to a selective high school will no longer remain on the reserve list. Students who have not been enrolled at another selective high school remain on the reserve list up until the end of Term 2 of the year in which enrolment is sought.

This list indicates the reserve list number of the latest student who received an offer to the selective high school.

For example:

means that the latest offer of a place at Penrith was made to the student on position 15 on the reserve list.

Your child's reserve list number does not change. You can track how much closer the Unit is to offering your child a place by checking to see how far down the reserve list the offers have progressed.  This list will be updated whenever an offer is made to a student on the reserve list.