Busan Office of Education to Announce Standardized General High School Placement Results on the 24th

15,133 Students Assigned to 89 High Schools
Registration Period: January 31 to February 3

The Busan Metropolitan Office of Education will announce the results of the "2025 Standardized General High School Placement" at 10 a.m. on January 24 through its official website.

The total number of students assigned is 15,133, which includes 15,067 students within the quota and 66 students outside the quota, distributed across 89 standardized general high schools.

On the same day, students will attend a preliminary orientation at their assigned high schools at 2 p.m. High school registration will take place from January 31 to February 3. Since the registration process may vary by school, students are advised to check the website of their assigned high school in advance for detailed instructions.

The general high school placement process applies two main methods: "multiple applications by preference, followed by lottery placement," and "placement reflecting residential information within the school district based on address data." In the first stage, 40% of each school's quota is filled by lottery among applicants who selected the school as their first choice within the metropolitan district. In the second stage, 20% of each school's quota is filled by lottery among applicants who selected the school as their second choice within the local district.

In the third and fourth stages, if there are unfilled seats after the first and second stages, these are filled by lottery among students who applied but were not yet placed. In the fifth stage, students who were not assigned to a school in stages one through four are placed into a unified school district, taking into account their residential information within the commuting area.

Choi Yunhong, Acting Superintendent, stated, "There were many challenges in the placement process due to the significant differences in the number of students residing in each area and the application rates for each school," adding, "We did our utmost to assign students to their preferred schools by adjusting class sizes and increasing the number of classes wherever possible."

Busan Metropolitan Office of Education.

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