{"id":61922,"date":"2023-11-06T08:04:04","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T16:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/?page_id=61922"},"modified":"2023-11-21T09:50:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T17:50:47","slug":"capacity","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/our-schools\/capacity\/","title":{"rendered":"Capacity Crisis at Our Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What do we mean by &#8220;capacity crisis&#8221;?<\/h2>\n<p>You may have heard New Westminster Schools is experiencing a <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 <strong>capacity <\/strong>as the reason.<\/p>\n<p>Capacity can mean two things in the context of schools in New Westminster:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The number of classroom spaces &#8211; including portables &#8211; has reached the maximum limit allowable on site according to District standards.<\/li>\n<li>The maximum number of students permitted in each grade level <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca\/civix\/document\/id\/complete\/statreg\/96412_00\">according to the School Act<\/a> or the District\u2019s collective agreements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When the school district talks about a <strong>capacity crisis, we are referring to classroom spaces<\/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 our schools.<\/p>\n<p>We place a high value on play space for students as part of their education and development. <strong>Eleven of twelve sites school sites across the District are undersized<\/strong> compared to Ministry area standards. On certain sites, play space has been <strong>significantly reduced<\/strong> by portable placements. We don&#8217;t believe it is in our students&#8217; best interests to sacrifice what little remaining play space we have left for more portables.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>For more information<\/h3>\n<ul>\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&#8217;re 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&#8217;re doing right now to address the capacity crisis and our long-term strategy<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do we mean by &#8220;capacity crisis&#8221;? You may have heard New Westminster Schools is experiencing a capacity crisis. Or maybe the catchment school you were hoping to register your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1009,"featured_media":0,"parent":10,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-61922","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61922","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\/1009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61922"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62031,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61922\/revisions\/62031"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}