The Ottawa Carleton District School Board has released its final list of staff recommendations for school closures.
Eight are potentially on the chopping block, and they are all names that have been mentioned before:
Students would be sent to other area schools. Some existing High Schools will add Grade 7 and 8 classrooms to accommodate these changes.
The Board says these closures would address low enrolment across more than two dozen schools. There are over 5,100 excess pupil spaces across the OCDSB and consolidating populations would reduce that number by more than half.
The following information from the report is a summary of the proposed changes.
• Bell High School (HS) would become a grade 7–12 school;
• D. Aubrey Moodie Intermediate School (IS) would close;
• Bells Corners Public School (PS), Lakeview PS and Bayshore PS would become K-grade 6 schools, with Bells Corners PS offering English( ENG) and Middle French Immersion (MFI), Lakeview PS offering Early French Immersion(EFI), and Bayshore PS offering ENG and EFI;
• Sir Robert Borden HS would become a grade 7–12 school;
• Greenbank Middle School (MS) would close;
• Leslie Park PS would close and its students would attend Briargreen PS;
• Grant Alternative School (AS) would close and its students would attend Churchill PS;
• Merivale HS would become a grade 7–12 school and (upon certification) would offer the west end International Baccalaureate (IB) program;
• Century PS would close and its students would attend Carleton Heights Public School;
• Regina Street PS would close and its students would attend D. Roy Kennedy Public School;
• J.H. Putman PS would close coincident with the opening of a new intermediate wing at Agincourt Road Public School;
• Agincourt Road PS would become a K–grade 6 school with consideration to expanding to a K-grade 8 structure as soon as critical enrolment is achieved to sustain an intermediate program (coincident with the opening of a new intermediate wing) and Woodroffe Avenue PS would become a JK–grade 8 school;
• Severn Avenue PS would become a K–grade 6 structure for immersion students (starting with grades 1 to 3), the Woodroffe Avenue PS EFI boundary would be changed and the current Severn Avenue PS english students would attend Pinecrest PS or D. Roy Kennedy PS depending on their place of residence.
• Rideau High School would be closed and its Grade 9 to 12 English Program with Core French be redirected to Gloucester High School effective September 2017.
• Grade 9 to 12 Immersion program students residing within the Rideau High School attendance area would be redirected to Gloucester High School effective September 2017; and
• Immersion program students residing within the Rideau High School attendance area currently enrolled in schools (2016-2017) other than Gloucester High School would be permitted to remain at those schools.
The report will be submitted to the board's committee of the whole on February 13th.
Final votes are expected on March 1st and March 7th.
You can read the Western Area Review here.
You can read the Eastern Secondary Review here.