What do the reserve bands mean?

From 2022, instead of a reserve list number, parents are given a band A to F next to the relevant school choice.

The ‘Reserve band’ column provides a general estimate for how long it might take to receive an offer from your child’s position on the reserve list for that school. This is based on when students in a similar position were placed during the previous year’s placement process. The bands are estimates only. The number and timing of declined offers is not necessarily the same from year to year.

Reserve list numbers are not published and are not generally released, as the band is a better indication of possible timing and likelihood.

Reserve list bands

Declining a reserve outcome

If your child is on a reserve list but you are sure you do not want your child to be placed in that school, please select ‘Withdraw’ and confirm that, yes, you do want to withdraw from the reserve list. You cannot change this decision later.

Notification of a subsequent or further offer

If your child's position on a reserve list is reached, the Team will contact you by an email alerting you to log in to your application dashboard to view the updated outcome. Make sure you check your email junk folder regularly.

If you get a subsequent or further offer, you must either accept it or decline it by the response due date shown or it will lapse.

If you already had an offer, you can choose to accept the new offer or decline it and keep your original offer. If you accept the new offer, the original offer is automatically declined.

Students on reserve lists are not guaranteed an offer.

Aurora College does not have a reserve list as all offers are made to allow the College to work with host schools as soon as outcomes are released.

End of year removal from reserve lists

You may accept an offer and also remain on a reserve list or lists for a higher choice school (or schools) until the last day of the school year. At that time you must make the decision whether to keep the offer or to decline it in order to remain on a reserve list or lists.

At 3:00 pm on the last day of the school year, the names of students holding an offer to a selective high school are removed from any higher choice school reserve lists. To remain on a reserve list for a higher choice school, you must decline the existing offer before the 'decision' date (18 December 2023). From this date until the end of Term 1 in the year of placement, offers will be made only to those remaining on reserve lists who have declined their previous offer or who have not yet received an offer.

After reserve lists close, any vacancies are held over for the Years 8 to 12 placement process.

Progress of the reserve lists

The progress list will be re-activated in late August 2023 when outcomes for entry in 2024 are released.

This table shows which reserve band is currently being offered for each selective high school. The list is updated when there is movement from one band to another until the end of 2022.