According to official predicted enrolment for the start of the 2023-2024 school year, Rainbow District School Board will welcome 13,996 students in Rainbow Schools when classes resume on Wednesday, September 6, 2023.
In the elementary panel, enrolment will total 9,133 students including 6,484 in the English Program and 2,649 in French Immersion.
In the secondary panel, enrolment is expected to reach 4,863 students including 4,134 in the English Program and 729 in French Immersion.
Enrolment is calculated as full-time equivalents.
This fall, 1,541 children are expected to be enrolled in Kindergarten in Rainbow Schools, a full-day program for four and five-year-olds.
A total of 1,093 students have registered for Grade 9 classes in area Rainbow Schools.
Official enrolment data will be available at the end of October.
Rainbow District School Board is the largest school board in Northern Ontario with 29 elementary school buildings and 9 secondary school buildings in Sudbury, Espanola and Manitoulin.
The Board also offers other programs – Child and Adolescent Mental Health Program, Cecil Facer School, N’Swakamok Native Friendship Centre, Children’s Treatment Centre, O’Connor Park, Applied Behaviour Analysis program, Restart, Simulated Healthy Independent Living Opportunities (SHILO) program, Attendance Centre, Mishko-Ode-Wendam, Northern Support Initiative, Frank Flowers School and Barrydowne College operating at Cambrian College.