{"id":37827,"date":"2022-01-19T12:52:18","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T20:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/?page_id=37827"},"modified":"2023-11-06T10:16:11","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T18:16:11","slug":"school-capacity-status","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/our-schools\/registration\/school-capacity-status\/","title":{"rendered":"School Capacity Status"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>School capacity status for the 2024-2025 school year<\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/our-schools\/registration\/registration-information-forms-2\/\">formal registration window<\/a> for new students entering the 2024-2025 school year is <strong>open as of November 6, 2023 and will close on January 26, 2024<\/strong>. Student placement decisions based on enrollment demand will take place during this time.<\/p>\n<p>Where we place students in any given school year will depend on the following:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Whether there is room to accommodate students at the school.<\/li>\n<li>Whether we can expand the number of classrooms to support the number of student applications.<\/li>\n<li>Whether we have reached physical space limits at a specific school.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>What happens when there is no space left at a school?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>If a school cannot accommodate students because it is <strong>physically out of space <\/strong>(&#8220;at full capacity&#8221;), it will not accept out-of-catchment applications and transfers. However, exceptions may be made to accommodate siblings if one or more are already enrolled in an out-of-catchment school.<\/li>\n<li>If the number of students requesting enrollment at a school exceeds the number of available spaces, <strong>we will use a lottery to determine placement<\/strong>. Siblings will be priority.<\/li>\n<li>Students unable to secure a spot at their catchment school will be offered a place at the nearest available school in the district.<\/li>\n<li>Students unable to secure a spot at their catchment school will also be placed on a waitlist and offered a chance to move if space become available.<\/li>\n<li>If a student applies to enroll at a catchment school with no available space <strong>outside of the regular registration window<\/strong>, they will be placed on a waiting list and offered a chance to move if space becomes available.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Certain schools in the district consistently receive large numbers of enrollment requests. The following schools\u00a0<strong>may<\/strong> be subject to the lottery system in any given school year:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00c9cole Qayqayt Elementary<\/li>\n<li>Lord Kelvin Elementary<\/li>\n<li>Queen Elizabeth Elementary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%; background-color: #e0e0e0;\"><strong>Note:<\/strong> A school&#8217;s capacity status does not impact currently enrolled students or students at specific programs. <strong>This status only affects students who are new to the district or those applying for out-of-catchment transfers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Students enrolled in a New Westminster Early French Immersion program will be guaranteed placement in a middle school French Immersion Program when they transition to Grade 6.<\/li>\n<li>Students enrolled at their catchment elementary schools will be placed at their catchment middle schools.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h2>Our schools are running out of room<\/h2>\n<p>You may have heard New Westminster Schools is experiencing a\u00a0<strong>capacity crisis<\/strong>. Or maybe the catchment school you were hoping to register your child at couldn\u2019t accommodate your placement request or that school registration may be in a lottery and cited\u00a0<strong>capacity\u00a0<\/strong>as the reason.<\/p>\n<p>The fact of the matter is, <strong>we have more students than space at our schools<\/strong>. As the city of New Westminster\u2019s population grows, so, too, will the number of students who reside in our community as new families look to register their children in the district.<\/p>\n<h3>For more information<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/our-schools\/capacity\/\">Learn about what we mean when we say our schools are experiencing a \u201ccapacity crisis\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/our-schools\/capacity\/school-population-growth\/\">Learn where our student population numbers are heading<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/our-schools\/capacity\/enrollment-challenges\/\">Learn more about current and future enrollment at New Westminster Schools<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/our-schools\/capacity\/provincial-area-standards\/\">Learn about provincial area standards and why we\u2019re not meeting them<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/our-schools\/capacity\/addressing-the-capacity-crisis\/\">Learn more about what we\u2019re doing right now to address the capacity crisis and our long-term strategy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/AP300-Student-Admissions-Catchment-Areas-Placement.pdf\">Learn more about student admissions, catchments, and placements by downloading Administrative Procedure 300<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Contact information<\/h2>\n<p>Do you\u00a0 have enrollment or registration questions? <a href=\"mailto:registrations@sd40.bc.ca\">Email our Registration Team<\/a> or phone them at 604-517-6200.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>School capacity status for the 2024-2025 school year The formal registration window for new students entering the 2024-2025 school year is open as of November 6, 2023 and will close [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":55,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-37827","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37827"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62045,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37827\/revisions\/62045"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}