Proposed Toronto Africentric school meets student requirement
Last Updated: Monday, March 9, 2009 | 8:52 AM ET
CBC News
Toronto District School Board staff are meeting on Monday to make plans for the city's first Africentric school, which is slated to go ahead in September after it surpassed the required minimum of 40 registered students.
School board trustee James Pasternak said the proposed school met the student requirement by last Friday's deadline.
"We're looking at a little over 70 expressions of interest and … probably close to 50 are concrete registrants," Pasternak told CBC News on Monday.
Pasternak said the school still doesn't have very many students signed up for Grades 3 and 4.
One option is to have a split grade class, he said.
The school chosen for the Africentric classes, Sheppard Public School, is at Keele Street and Sheppard Avenue West.
Initially, the new school is supposed to teach children from kindergarten to Grade 5, with the desired aim of combating the disproportionately high dropout rate among black students in the Toronto school system.
A principal has yet to be hired. The board will be discussing that issue on Wednesday.
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