The Bluewater District School Board is holding an open house addresses temporary changes at schools in Dundalk and Flesherton next September.
The open house held at Grey Highlands Secondary in Flesherton will run on October 22nd from 6-8pm for all to learn more about these changes.
Among these changes include;
- Highpoint Community School in Dundalk (currently Grades 3 – 8) will become a Grades 3 – 6 school.
- The Grades 7 – 8 program currently at Highpoint Community School will be temporarily relocated to Grey Highlands Secondary School (currently Grades 9 – 12), which will become a Grades 7 – 12 school until the new school in Dundalk is complete.
- Three ‘holding zones’ will be created in Dundalk. A holding zone is an area of high population growth and development within a geographic boundary where future homes will be built.
- Macphail Memorial Elementary School in Flesherton (currently JK – Grade 8) will be the receiving school for JK – Grade 8 students from the three holding zones.
- Dundalk and Proton Community School will remain unchanged as a JK – Grade 2 school.
These changes are being made to manage increasing student enrollment in advance of the newly Minister of Education approved junior kindergarten to grade 8 school in Dundalk.