Education

My department has informed me of the following:

1. (a) Please see attached list of learner enrolment per school (Annexure A) as of 22 February 2024. Note that live CEMIS data from a specific date is subject to further refinement and correction of errors over time.

(b) Placement in the district as of 15 February 2024 is as follows:

2.

1. School-based data would not be a reflection of learners that do not have a place in a school.

Firstly, parents apply to multiple schools for their children. One unique learner may have applications submitted to 10 schools and would only confirm placement at 1 of these. Thus, the number of “unsuccessful” applications per school would exponentially exceed the number of actual unique learners in the system.

Secondly, a learner may have an application that has been unsuccessful at one school, but successful at another, and their preferred school of choice. 

For example, if a learner has been successful in their application to School A, their first school of choice, but their application to School B has been unsuccessful.

This learner would not be unplaced – they have been placed in their first choice of school.

Thirdly, new extremely late applications made in February, for example, will not reflect an unsuccessful status until the application is processed. These applications are captured by the district and the status will only change once a place is found and the schools apply a status to the application. This can take some time as for example in the case of Grade 10 to 12 learners, as subject choice makes it more difficult to find a place at a school that offers the subjects that the learner wishes to study. 

2.  District placement in progress is as follows, as of 15 February 2024:

3. (a)   The following areas were identified as hotspot areas in 2024:

• Mitchells Plain
• Phillippi
• Schools of Choice – Southern Suburbs
• Delft
• Du Noon / Parklands
• Mfuleni
• Brackenfell
• Kraaifontein
• Strand / Helderberg
• Khayelitsha
• Grabouw
• Hermanus
• Vredenburg

2. The number of learners successfully enrolled at schools as of 22 February 2024, is as follows:

3. Learners in the process of being placed is as follows, as per data of 15 February 2024:

4. As of 15 February 2024:

(a) 25 learners

(b) (i) and (ii):

                 (iii)