Trustees with the Avon Maitland District School Board have accepted one part of the proposed boundary adjustment in North Perth, but rejected the second part.
The boundary adjustment is the result of a quickly growing population in North Perth that is creating overcrowding in some schools.
Superintendent of Corporate Services, Cheri Carter, says trustees ultimately decided to make the boundary adjustments that staff had presented in the first meeting that impacted Listowel Eastdale community. But they will not move grade seven and eight students out of North Perth Westfield.
Carter points out that there will not be any changes until the fall of 2023 and at that time a small group of Listowel Eastdale students will move to North Perth Westfield.
The immediate focus for the board is to communicate to all of the families involved that the status quo will be maintained for the coming school year and letting parents know who will be moving in the fall of 2023.
“With the boundary adjustments and the addition, once we get Ministry permission to proceed on that, we hope Listowel Eastdale will be in a pretty stable space for a number of years. But it means that North Perth Westfield now will be our pressure school, where we're going to see some significant over-capacity," said Carter.
Carter adds they're looking at bringing in eight to ten portables at North Perth Westfield in the coming five or six years and they'll also to continue to ask the Ministry for permission to build an addition onto the school.
