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If your child has been placed on a reserve list for selective high school placement, they'll be given a reserve band.

This information is displayed in the ‘Reserve Band’ column in your application dashboard next to the relevant school.

Reserve bands range from Band A to Band F and are an estimate of when your child might receive an offer from a school.

If you are in Band A to E, you are likely to get an offer, but there is no guarantee that you will.

If you are in Band F, you are unlikely to get an offer.

The reserve bands are based on how parents declined their offers last year at each school. The bands are designed to help you make educational plans and should be treated only as a guide.

If your child's position on a reserve list is reached, you will receive an email asking you to view the updated outcome in your application dashboard.

You need to then ‘accept’ or ‘decline’ the placement offer.

If you don't respond by the due date, you will lose the offer and the place will be given to the next student on the reserve list.

Please note that when you decline an offer or withdraw from being on a reserve list, you cannot change this decision later.

If you have accepted a placement offer from a school and receive an offer from a different school, you can choose to ‘accept’ or ‘decline’ the new offer.

If you accept the new offer, the original offer is automatically declined.

If you decline the new offer, you keep your earlier accepted offer.

You may accept an offer while remaining on reserve lists for higher-choice schools up until the Reserve Decision Date. Refer to the key dates on our website.

If you have accepted an offer but want to remain on a reserve list after the Reserve Decision Date, you need to decline your current offer.

This means that after the Reserve Decision Date, students with an accepted offer will be removed from all reserve lists.

Students with no accepted offers can remain on reserve lists up until the end of term 1 in Year 7.

If your child is on a reserve list but you no longer want them to be placed in that school, select 'Withdraw' in your application dashboard.

For more information, including the progress of offers from Reserve Bands, please visit the Selective High Schools and Opportunity Classes website.