A Catholic school for elementary and junior high aged students will be built in Davisburg over the next three years, providing much needed relief for packed schools in Okotoks.
Tuesday morning Alberta Education Minister Jeff Johnson announced the Davisburg school is amongst one of the first to be built under new capital funding for schools across the Province.
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Division-wide transportation will still be offered for Grade 6 students attending Notre Dame’s sports academy – one of the many attendance and boundary issues decided upon by the Medicine Hat Catholic Board of Education at a special board meeting Monday evening at St. Louis School.
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Fort Saskatchewan’s population boom is filtering down to the classrooms, as local Catholic schools are seeing a noticeable increase in the number of students from the Elk Island Catholic Schools (EICS) board of trustees.
The population across the board in EICS — which includes schools in Fort Saskatchewan, Strathcona County, Camrose and Vegreville — sits at a total of 5,543 students.
According to Tony Sykora, chairperson of the EICS board of trustees, that’s an approximate two-per-cent increase from last year. He added that rise in numbers is typical on the provincial scene.
That, in a big part, is being fueled by local families.
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Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools has decided on which neighbourhood children will have the opportunity to go to their newest school.
Trustees approved on Tuesday the attendance boundaries for Fr. Henri Voisin School set to open September 2014 in Clearview Ridge.
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A sod turning ceremony was held last Friday for the new Catholic school that is to be built in the Clearview Ridge subdivision of Red Deer.
After an opening prayer for the ceremony and a scripture reading, attendees had a moment to reflect in silence before Deacon Claude Baril gave a blessing of the site where the new Father Henri Voisin School will be built.
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A new Catholic elementary school was identified by the Medicine Hat Catholic School Board as one of their priorities in their capital projects plan. The province now wants them to identify a site on where to put the school, somewhere south of the TransCanada Highway. Superintendent Clyde Pudwell said one location under consideration in Saamis Heights, may be too small for their needs.
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