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By Shaun Penner

Growing Enrolment

Enrolment pressures at PWA leads to request for additional modular classrooms

Nov 4, 2021 | 12:14 PM

Growing enrolment pressures at Peace Wapiti Academy has led the Peace Wapiti Public School Division to request two additional modular classrooms for the school.

Deputy Superintendent Darren Young says the school’s population is continuing to see sustained growth over the near term, which could bring the school to 93 per cent capacity by next year.

“This past year, enrolment grew by five per cent, and we’re projecting enrolment growth at Peace Wapiti Academy next year of 12 per cent,” said Young. “That’s due to large cohorts of students coming from their feeder schools.”

PWA already has two modular classrooms and has space for two more without having to make changes to the layout.

However, Young says this highlights the division’s desire to see a replacement be built for PWA sooner rather than later. He hopes the board will keep that replacement at the top of its capital plan when it is submitted.

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“We do our submissions in March, but our recommendation will be that Peace Wapiti Academy, from administration’s point of view, would probably stay as the number one priority. But that will be the decision of the board.”

Overall, Young says student enrolment across the division remained stable from last year, with 5,889 students registered in the division.

“We didn’t have overall enrolment growth. Some schools went up, some schools went down, but as a (division) it stayed fairly even.”

Peace Wapiti Academy serves as a Grade 9-12 school with its students coming from Harry Balfour, Whispering Ridge, Clairmont, Bezanson and Penson School in Grovedale.