10 - Sunday, October t, 1989 —- North Shore News

Foreign, ESL students boost
WV school enrolment figures

ENROLMENT, scholarships and
teacher totals have increased
significantly in West Vancouver's
School District 45 this September,
board members were told Monday
at their first meeting of the school
year.

PATRICK RAYNARD

“A significant influx of foreign
and ESL (English as a Second
Language) students’’ has helped
bcost total enrolment from 5,088
full-time equivalents (FTE) in
Sept. 1988 to 5,202 this year, assis-
tant superintendent John Calder
said.
“We're struggling desperately
with space problems at Sentinel
(Secondary),”’ district superin-
tendent Doug Player said, respon-
ding to statistics that show Sentinel
enrolment is up 68 pupils over
what was projected, to a total of
1,145, and that West Vancouver
Secondary has increased 30 more
than expected, to a total of 862.

Hillside Middle School has
enrolled 651 students this fall,
Calder reported, bringing the sec-
ondary total in the district to
2,658, while elementary students
total 2,544 this year.

‘“We've also hired 58 new teach-
ers, 12 of whom are new to the
profession,’’ Calder said.

Teacher FTEs have risen from
about 300 last year to 310.5 this
September, Player said, and
Calder pointed out that the

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board’s target of 28 or fewer
pupils per class has been reached in
almost all classes.

Ridgeview has the highest
elementary enrolment, at 348
FTEs, while Lions Bay has the
lowest at 50.

The figures include
kindergarten, which is offered in
all schools except Pauline
Johnson. There are 11 elementary
schools in the district, including
Bowen Island.

NV enrolment
up by 3%

AN ENROLMENT of an extra 459
students over June 1989 has push-
ed North Vancouver’s School
District 44 population up three per
cent, it was announced at Tues-
day’s school board meeting.

“Interestingly enough, our
kindergarten enrolment was iden-
tical to last year,”’ said new schoo!
superintendent Dr. Robin Brayne.

The increases came in the Grade
1 and 2 group, with an extra 296
students shcwing up, and in sec-
ondary grades, which increased by
165.
The figures are not firm at this
point, said assistant superintendent
Pat Bell, but he added that the
final tally should show a net in-
crease of between 400 and 450 stu-
dents.

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“Sentinel and Ridgeview are our
highest priority regarding space, at
this point,’? Calder assured the
board.

A tota! of $1,000 per scholarship
was awarded to 35 Grade 12 stu-
dents in the two secondary schools
in the spring, assistant superin-
tendent Bob Overgaard told the
board.

‘*Results have increased
significantly in almost all sub-
jects,’’ Overgaard said.

“Not only do West Vancouver
students enrol in provincially ex-
aminable subjects to a_ greater
degree than their peers provin-

cially, (but) their overall achieve- |

ment is higher as well,’’ Overgaard
said.

He added that ‘‘a higher per-
centage of students in West Van-
couver than in the province choose
to write scholarship examina-
tions.”’

Teachers were especially praised
by board chairman Jean Ferguson
for the many extra hours of tutor-
ing and seminars she said they gave
their pupils.

The percentage of West Van-
couver’s Grade 12 population
receiving scholarships rose to 7.7
this year, up from an average of
six per cent over the previous three
years.

The 7.7 per cent reached by
West Vancouver’s Grade 12 stu-
dents in 1989 was more than dou-
ble the provincial rate, Overgaard
reported.

The public is invited to actively
participate in the next board
meeting, to be held on Sept. 25 at
7 p.m., which will deal with the
School Act and the subject of
foreign students, Player told the
trustees and citizens present.

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