sem colocação
Published 8 November 2026, 20:40
sem colocação — "no placement", the status of a school admission application
A label in the Portal das Matrículas meaning that the child has not yet been given a place at any of the schools chosen. It is not a refusal of schooling: in Portugal schools must provide compulsory education to everyone, and such applications are placed at a later stage — usually at a school that still has places, not the one that came first on the list.
Where you come across it. The parent's personal area on the school enrolment portal, letters and conversations with the office of the agrupamento de escolas.
Do not just sit and wait: with this status, go to your agrupamento de escolas and push for a placement there, and if you get no answer, go to the regional education authority, DGEstE. An application filed after the deadline is still considered, but it goes to the back of the queue.