Livingstone Range School Division is predicting enrollment to be relatively unchanged for the 2024-’25 school year.
The division is expecting 3,599.25 full-time equivalent students next year, compared to the 3,598.15 FTE enrolled at present.
“I caution that this is a projection made in January for the following school year,” associate superintendent of business services Jeff Perry said. “There will be ups and downs.”
Perry provided the enrollment update during the school board’s Feb. 26 meeting at the G.R. Davis Administration Building in Fort Macleod.
School divisions are required by the provincial government to provide an enrollment estimate in January of each year.
The government then uses that enrollment number to determine how much funding the school division receives for operations.
Perry said school administrators use the information they have available at the time when projecting future enrollment.
Following is the project enrollment in Livingstone Range:
Nanton
A.B. Daley school — 178.5, compared to 189 this year.
J.T. Foster school — 210, up from 199 this year.
Stavely
Stavely school — 70.5. down from 74.5 this year.
Claresholm
West Meadow school — 301, up from 298.5 this year.
Willow Creek Composite — 321, down from 335 this year.
Granum
Granum school — 43, up from 40.
Fort Macleod
W.A. Day school — 290, down from 300.5.
F.P. Walshe school — 383, up from 367.
Pincher Creek
Canyon school — 240, down from 242.5.
Matthew Halton school — 249, down from 270.
Lundbreck
Livingstone school — 247.5, up from 246.5.
Crowsnest Pass
Horace Allen school — 179.5, up from 171.
Isabelle Sellon school — 140, up from 136.
Crowsnest Consolidated — 300, up from 299.
Enrollment at outreach schools is forecast to increase to 60 FTE, from 57.
Colony school enrollment is projected to be 247.5 FTE students, up from 243.
International student enrollment is predicted to remain the same at 42 students
Home school and virtual school enrollment is forecast to increase to 96.75 FTE, up from 87.65.
