Ninety additional students are in Livingstone Range School Division classrooms this year.
Associate superintendent of business services Jeff Perry last week gave the final enrollment report to trustees.
Perry reported that Livingstone Range has 3,508.9 full-time equivalent students, which is higher than projections and up from 3,418 last year.
Perry gave his report during the school board’s Oct. 24 meeting at the G.R. Davis Administration Building in Fort Macleod.
At. F.P. Walshe school in Fort Macleod there are 371 students, down from the projected 393 and down three from last year.
“Students that were typically expected to be in F.P. Walshe are now attending our outreach program,” Perry said. “That’s not a bad thing It shows the benefit of having alternative programming.”
W.A. Day school in Fort Macleod has 319 students, up seven from projections and up 5.5 FTE from last year.
Granum school has 43.5 FTE students, down five from projections and down from 45 last year.
In Nanton, A.B. Daley has 188 students, which is down 14 from projections and down from 207 last year.
J.T. Foster school’s enrollment met projections with 201 students, which is 15 more than last year.
Stavely school has 69 students, which is three more than projected but down five from last year.
West Meadow school in Claresholm has 303.5 FTE students, up 3.5 from projections and up 16 from last year.
Willow Creek Composite high school had 332.4 FTE students, down 15.6 from projections but up 10.9 FTE from last year.
In Pincher Creek, Canyon school has 245.5 FTE students, which is up 19.5 from both projections and last year.
Matthew Halton school has 269 students, which is up six from projections and up seven from last year.
“Pincher Creek was a nice surprise,” Perry said. “People moved into the community, and people also came from other schools.”
Livingstone school in Lundbreck has 249.5 FTE students, which is down 4.5 from projections but up five from last year.
Horace Allen school in the Crowsnest Pass has 160 students, up 4.5 from projections but down one from last year.
Isabelle Sellon school had 139 students, up 10 from projections and up two from last year.
Crowsnest Consolidated school had 301 students, up six from projections and an increase of 22 from last year.
“Crowsnest Pass was another very nice surprise,” Perry said. “Again, likely a few students moving in but some going back to in-school attendance versus the virtual school.”
Forty-five students are registered in outreach schools, up 17 from projections and an increase of 24 from last year.
There are 237.5 students in Hutterite colony schools, down 2.5 from projections but up 6.5 from last year.
Livingstone Range has 35 international students, two more than projections but down 13 from last year.
The number of home education students dropped to 8.75 FTE from 11.5 last year.
There are 72.8 virtual school students compared to 127 last year.
“It’s that trend of people going back into the schools,” Perry said. “That doesn’t mean the virtual school is not being utilized.”
Some students who are back in school are also taking classes through the virtual school.
