More students in Lambton’s Catholic schools

Local Journalism Initiative

May 9, 2024 at 1:57 p.m.·1 min read

There are 300 more students at the St. Clair Catholic District School Board.

St. Clair Catholic’s Associate Director of Corporate Services and Treasurer Amy Janssens told trustees during the April 30 meeting about the enrolment bump during a discussion about portables.

The student enrolment of St. Clair District Catholic School Board was 8,658 students during the 2022-23 school year.

Janssens says even with the enrolment increase no additional portables will needed. Some will be moved to different schools to meet the enrolment pressures.

There are currently seven portables at the Gregory A. Hogan French Immersion Catholic School in Sarnia which has been replaced with a new school on the Rapids Parkway in Sarnia.

Janssens said no portables are needed at the new school, so five of those portables are going to be moved to other schools in September; one to Forest, three Blenheim and one to in Wallaceburg.

Other schools with portables where there number will be unchanged is one portable at Sacred Heart Catholic School in Port Lambton and three portables at St. Anne Catholic School in Sarnia.

With the opening of the new Gregory A. Hogan Catholic School and the opening of St. Teresa of Calcutta Catholic School in Chatham in September, trustees plan to declare three existing schools surplus.

After property is declared surplus by a school board, the ministry of education is notified. Then, the ministry has 120 days to respond and identify how the surplus properties will be sold.

, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Independent

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