Student enrolment in School District 57 continues to fall, and school board officials anticipate that trend will continue every year until at least 2016.
While overall numbers are dropping, some schools in the Hart and College Heights areas are at or over capacity, according to a school board report produced by the District Parent Advisory Council.
Although the current student population of 12,767 is expected to drop by 266 students to 12,501 in the 2012-13 school year, superintendent Brian Pepper said there is no imminent threat of school closures.
“At this point, other than enrolment decline, we believe we’re quite stable with our school budgeting and the board has had no discussions with senior staff about school closure,” Pepper said.
One very important consideration is that while overall enrolment decline is continuing, elementary school enrolment is projected to increase, according to both the school district and the Ministry of Education:
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