Gauteng receives more than 210k school applications within hours of 2027 admissions opening
More than 210 000 applications for Grade 1 and Grade 8 placements were submitted within hours of the Gauteng Department of Education’s (GDE) 2027 Online Admissions system going live, the department said on Wednesday.
Tshwane West school leads with 1k applications The department said the process had run smoothly, with no major technical problems reported.
According to the department, the system opened at 8am on Wednesday, 5 August 2026, and by 12pm, 210 055 applications had already been submitted.
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