Preliminary Boundary Review Discussions

The Chilliwack School District is among the fastest growing school districts in BC and is projected to grow by 1,150 students over the next decade. As of 2024-2025, there are approximately 15,000 students in the district.

In September 2023, the provincial government announced $58.6 million to build a new elementary school to alleviate capacity challenges on Chilliwack’s east side by adding space for 500 K-5 students. Update: The new elementary school will open for the 2027/2028 school year.

District staff anticipate that the Board of Education will engage in a boundary review process to determine which students will attend the new school on the north side. During the boundary review there is also an opportunity to review boundaries and enrolment on the south side of the city.

Update: From February to April 2025, we engaged in preliminary discussions with parents/guardian/caregivers and staff in potentially impacted school communities. The focus of preliminary discussions was to share potential changes to balance enrolment on Chilliwack's south side and to explore scenarios for enrolment at the new east side elementary school. Staff are compiling everything we heard from families and school communities to share with the Board of Education in a What We Heard Report. The report will be ready at the end of April 2025.

Questions

The Chilliwack School District is growing rapidly and expects 1,150 more students over the next decade. To address capacity, a new elementary school for 500 students is being built, set to open in 2026.

District staff are hosting preliminary discussions with specific school communities to share and hear feedback on potential changes to existing boundaries throughout the district and to explore possible scenarios for enrolment at the new school.

Please share any questions and we'll do our best to answer as promptly as we can.

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Is there any consideration for making RTCS a middle and high school?

JEmmelot asked 2 months ago

Thank you for your question. Give the size of the school, making RTCS a combined middle and secondary school would really limit the offerings and electives that would be available to secondary students. The experience at other secondary schools would be far superior creating inequity in service.