School enrollment down, online enrollment skyrockets in Kamloops-Thompson School District
KAMLOOPS — The Kamloops-Thompson School District is reporting significant enrollment decline in its brick-and-mortar schools — but enrollment in its online program has skyrocketed.
New numbers released Tuesday (Sept. 15) show 13,818 full-time equivalent (FTE) students registered in schools as of last Friday.
Superintendent Terry Sullivan says that represents about 94 per cent of expected students and has likely risen in the days since.
“We had more students come back to school (Monday and Tuesday), so I think we’re over the 95 per cent that we originally projected,” Sullivan told CFJC Today. “Students are going to come back. We staffed our schools for certain numbers and we believe that, eventually when this is all over, all of these students are going to come back to their neighbourhood schools — some sooner than later.”