Enrollment declining in Livingstone Range

The preliminary student enrollment numbers in Livingstone Range School Division are down from last year, but up from the enrollment projected by school administrators in the spring.
Associate superintendent for business services Jeff Perry presented the numbers Sept. 11, cautioning trustees the total is preliminary as of Sept. 10 and will still change right up to the Sept. 30 cut-off.
Total enrollment is 3,504 students and has declined by 112 full-time equivalent students from last year, which equates to about three per cent.
The good news is enrollment has increased 79 students over projections.
Enrollment is calculated with each student from Grade 1 to 12 counted as one full-time equivalent student, and Kindergarten students each counting as 0.5 full-time equivalent students.
The preliminary numbers for full-time equivalent students as of Sept. 10 break down as follows:
Fort Macleod

• W.A. Day school has 185 students, up 29 from projected, and up 16.5 from last year.
• G.R. Davis school has 154 students, up 14 from projected, and up 10 from last year.
• F.P. Walshe school has 348 students, up 14 from projected, and up 12 from last year.
• Walshe Crossroads Campus has 62 students, down three from projected, and down 10 from last year.

Granum

• Granum school has 41 students, down 4.5 from projected, and down 18.5 from last year.

Nanton

• A.B. Daley school has 208 students, the same as projected and down 0.5 from last year.
• J.T. Foster school has 196 students, down eight from projected, and down 11 from last year.

Stavely

• Stavely school has 55.5 students, up six from projected, and up eight from last year.

Claresholm

• West Meadow school has 273 students, down 2.5 from projected, and down 18 from last year.
• Willow Creek Composite high school has 396 students, up five from projected, and down 36 from last year.
• Outreach North has 15 students, the same as projected, and down five from last year.

Pincher Creek

• Canyon school has 258.5 students, up 8.5 from projected, and down 15 from last year.
• Matthew Halton high school has 316 students, up 12 from projected, and down 23 from last year.
• Outreach West has 10 students, the same as projected, and down 11 from last year.

Lundbreck

• Livingstone school has 189.5 students, 0.50 less than projected, and seven less than last year.

Crowsnest Pass

• Horace Allen school has 158.5 students, up 12 from projected, and up 10 from last year.
• Isabelle Sellon school has 111 students, down six from projected, and down 12 from last year.
• Crowsnest Consolidated high school has 312 students, up three from projected, and down five from last year.

Colonies

• Colony schools have 215 students, the same as projected, and up 3.5 from last year