Parents in north Calgary got their first look at what a new high school expected to be built in the area could look like on Wednesday.
The Calgary Board of Education (CBE) held an open house to showcase renderings of what is being called the North Calgary High School.
The school, which will potentially be built on Coventry Hills Way N.E., has been in one form of planning or another for over a decade.
Tamara Keller said she bought a house in the community 13 years ago with the hopes that her future children could walk to high school.
She’s frustrated it’s taken this long.
“Without [this school] they’ll be spending an hour and a half, and two hours, every day on city transit.”
The school has since made it into the top three on the province’s priority list but is still years away from completion, even if funding is granted this year.
CBE trustee Althea Adams said the new school is needed now more than ever.
“If we could just continue this process seamlessly it will be open in September 2023,” Adams said. “That’s when we’re seeing our biggest bubble of high school students coming in.”
Adams added that it’s not just north Calgary that will be seeing a rise in enrollment.
“All of our schools will have a massive high school bubble coming,” she said.
Those hoping the North Calgary High School gets built are waiting for a funding announcement from the provincial government.
Adams said that’s expected to happen sometime in the fall of 2019.
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