Students near the Fergus Storybrook subdivision now know if they will be attending the new Centre Wellington elementary school come September.
Boundary Option 3 was unanimously approved as the new boundary for the yet to be named school at an Upper Grand District School Board meeting on Tuesday.
This new boundary would affect 219 students currently attending Elora Public School and Salem Public School.
The junior kindergarten to Grade 8 school with 328 pupil places will be located at Kirvan Street and Elliot Avenue East within the Fergus Storybrook subdivision. The boundary includes the north Fergus development area, area east of Beatty Line North with homes along Side Road 19, area and subdivision north of Side Road 10 west of St. David St. North.
This online map shows if you are affected by the boundary by typing in your postal code.
Students entering Grade 8 at Elora Public School for the 2025/2026 school year who are outside the school’s new boundary will stay at Elora Public School. The board also approved that the siblings of those Grade 8 students in grades four to seven will be given the option of staying at Elora Public School for one extra year.
By 2026 all students from junior kindergarten to Grade 8 within the Centre Wellington elementary school boundary will attend the school.
The board heard an update on the school’s progress and it is still on track to open for the 2025/2026 school year.
Most students in junior kindergarten to Grade 6 in the boundary are within 1.6 km of the new school and Grade 7 to 8 students are within 3.2 km walking distance. Although these students are within walking distance of the school some areas may not be walkable due to a lack of sidewalks, said in a finance and facilities committee meeting report.
The board has reached out to the township regarding sidewalks and safe routes to school, said trustee Jen Edwards at the board meeting while summarizing the finance and facilities committee meeting from Jan. 21.
There was no discussion on the boundary before it was unanimously approved.