New West Is Densifying. Schools Aren’t Keeping Up - The Tyee
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With just under 10,000 students, the New Westminster school district is one of the smaller urban districts in B.C. But it is also among the most overcrowded.
The city of New Westminster — the second most dense city in Canada — has seen its population grow by more than 20,000 between 2006 and 2021, for a total of nearly 80,000 residents as of the 2021 census, the last available reporting period.
As a result of local population growth, public school enrolment has also gone up. Between the 2023-24 and 2025-26 school years alone, New Westminster’s public schools gr…
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