If you're a student in Fort McMurray and you planned on dressing as a clown this Halloween, you might be out of luck.

Preparations are underway to accommodate thousands of students back into Fort McMurray schools. The two main schools districts expects to see about 85 to 90 per cent of the student population return after May's devastating wildfires.

A public school in one of Fort McMurray's hardest-hit neighbourhoods will not reopen to students in the fall.