Officials with the St. Clair Catholic District School Board are pleased to see elementary school enrollment hasn't taken too big a hit to start the year.
The board lost just 23 students over the summer, good for just a 0.37% decrease from 2014.
Assistant Superintendent Amy Janssen says those totals are consistent with what they anticipated.
"The numbers we're seeing are pretty close to what we estimated at budget time," she says.
The trend of housing Grade 7 and 8 students in high schools was brought up at a recent board meeting. But Janssen says they can't confirm this is affecting enrollment numbers.
"It would be hard for us to predict why some of our students are leaving to go to the public board's Grade 7 program, without having a discussion with the families," she says.
Schools with French Immersion programs are seeing particularly successful numbers. St. Anne in Blenheim's immersion numbers are up by nearly 9%, another school in Sarnia up over 14 percentage points.
