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Pine Grove not expected to be at capacity by 2018 continued from p.1 October 2014 as to whether a boundary review is needed for the 2015-16 school year. Oakville trustee Don Vrooman had urged staff to come up with a specific time frame for future recommendations rather than simply telling parents, as initially proposed, that Pine Grove will be "monitored" as it reaches its capacity. Last month, Vrooman told trustees that parents have expressed concerns -- that they're considering French Immersion, but don't want to put their children in an overcrowded school. "This is not a modern school with a large, modern gym and playing field and other amenities," Vrooman said. Trustees had earlier decided to seek an interim solution for southwest Oakville's growing French Immersion enrolment concerns by undertaking a boundary review for community schools, including Brookdale, Eastview, Gladys Speers, Oakwood, Pine Grove, and W.H. Morden public schools. The idea was to find an interim accommodation plan for French Immersion, which may not necessarily be the ultimate solution. Education officials, in their latest assessment, concluded enrolment projections for Pine Grove over the next couple of years indicate the school, with the portables currently there, can accommodate the students. With its portables, the school has a capacity to handle 831 students. It currently has 750. 9 | Wednesday, January 15, 2014 | OAKVILLE BEAVER | www.insideHALTON.com The school is capable of delivering the program... and has the capacity to sustain those students. We are aware, down the road, there may be other reasons why we might want to review the boundary. Yaw Obeng rooms to warrant offering both English and French Immersion studies. It had been projected that Pine Grove would reach its building and portable capacity by 2015, but the latest projections show it will still be under capacity by 2018. However, there is a community concern that unless a new school is built in the Lakeshore Woods community, funding for which has yet to be approved by the Province, enrolment pressures will eventually result in an overcrowding issue with the school unable to accept any more students.. If provincial funding for a new school is approved, Halton education officials say a boundary review would then have to be done. Halton District School Board Education Superintendent THERE'S NEVER BEEN A BETTER TIME TO DESIGN YOUR DREAM AYA KITCHEN The numbers allow for Pine Grove to continue to deliver the French Immersion program for a cluster of elementary schools in the area, Education Superintendent Yaw Obeng reported to trustees. But, he said, officials intend to "monitor community shifts and enrolment." "The school is capable of delivering the program... and has the capacity to sustain those students," Obeng told trustees last month. "We are aware, down the road, there may be other reasons why we might want to review the boundary." Southwest Oakville is currently experiencing problems in some schools where there aren't enough English-speaking students to fill class- AYA KITCHENS OF OAKVILLE · 1195 North Service Road West AyAoakville.com · 905.847.1522 JAN 31ST REGISTER BEFORE JAN 15TH FOR YOUR CHANCE TO WIN A PAIR OF SMITH GOGGLES GLEN EDEN 2014 FRIDAY INCLUD ES D TO SLO AY & NIGHT A PES CC RACES, , LUNCH, GAM ESS AND MU E CH MOR S, E!! TO PURCHASE TICKETS VISIT WWW.OAKVILLEWINTERFEST.COM SPONSORED BY: M I LTO N O N TA R I O