School board wants Westsyde Elementary reopened, more capital funding
KAMLOOPS — Increased enrolment rates across schools in Kamloops have led to the school board moving forward with plans to reopen Westsyde Elementary School.
School District 73’s Board of Education unanimously voted to reopen the school — which closed in 2006 — at a meeting last night (Dec. 17), with a projected reopening date for the 2019 school year.
“David Thompson (Elementary) is over capacity,” board chair Kathleen Karpuk says. “They’re currently at about 125 per cent capacity utilization because we’ve got several portables out there, The school’s getting to the size where we can’t add any more portables because it becomes too unwieldy, and Westsyde Elementary is out in that same area so it just makes sense for us to reopen that school.”