Leduc Schools Boundary and Grade Configuration Review

Welcome to this feedback opportunity on the the proposed school boundary and grade configuration review for schools within Leduc (excluding Covenant Christian School and the Leduc Outreach School). This feedback opportunity is available only to the residents of the city of Leduc, and to those families living outside of the city boundaries who have children attending Black Gold schools in Leduc.

Please review the information on this website, share your ideas, and fill out the survey below to have your say before April 19, 2023.

Why are we doing this?
With the anticipated opening in September 2024 of Ohpaho Secondary School – with an opening capacity of 1,100 students – there is a need to establish attendance boundaries and grade configuration for the new school, and conduct a review of the impact of these additional student spaces on other Leduc schools as the community is growing at a significant rate. Also, while most of the established attendance boundaries support the neighbourhood school concept geographically, there are some areas which, due to neighbourhood build-out rates and school utilization rates, have students attending schools across town.

Over the last two years, East Elementary School, Caledonia Park School, Leduc Composite High School, Ecole Leduc Junior High School, and West Haven Public School have experienced their highest enrolments, leading to very high utilization rates. In fact, four of our nine schools in Leduc are above the 100 percent utilization rate (see map below), which creates an urgent need for extra student spaces across the community.

What are our project objectives?

The Division’s overall goals are to ensure continued quality programming for all students through equitable school utilization. In addition, we’re seeking to:

• To maximize the boundary and grade configuration effectiveness and minimize the amount of disruption to achieve this.
• To enable viable enrolments at all schools.
• To permit Division programs (e.g. French Immersion) and services at the appropriate schools.
• To continue to accommodate Inclusive Education.
• To ensure all schools work within their capacity, in terms of “permanent” school facilities and portable/modular classrooms.
• To support a successful transition of students and families from current attendance boundaries and maximize school utilization.
• To respect the City of Leduc residential neighbourhood boundaries as closely as possible.
• Consider transportation efficiencies

What are we doing?
To address the above concerns, the Division contracted the services of Edmonton Public Schools Planning Consultancy to submit the Leduc Student Attendance Area Study, which was presented to the Board on February 22, 2023. The study’s goals include proposing attendance boundary options for Ohpaho Secondary School and to review the city of Leduc school boundaries (excluding Covenant Christian School and the Outreach School) to accommodate as many students as close to home as possible.

This comprehensive study provides a number of concepts to help address the capacity challenges, which can be further investigated through a public engagement process. Through this public engagement process, a final recommendation will be generated and presented to the Board for consideration this fall.

Feedback Opportunity

This feedback opportunity on the proposed school boundary and grade configuration review for Leduc schools is available to all residents of the city of Leduc.

This is your chance to share your thoughts! Please click on the Register tab in the top right corner to get started.

Please fill out the Survey before April 19, 2023, to let us know your thoughts as we work to complete this grade and boundary configuration review.

Do you have a question? Check out our FAQs document or use the Ask a Question tab to reach out to us.

Thank you for taking the time to provide your valuable feedback. Your survey response and comments will be reviewed by the Working Committee and shared with the Board of Trustees as part of the recommendation report. The Board of Trustees will review and consider the recommendation this fall.