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CBC
26-05-2025
- Business
- CBC
New Shediac anglophone school location announced, with room for growth
Social Sharing The site of a new school in Shediac has been selected, leaving the district and province hopeful it will relieve enrolment pressures. The province is budgeting $105 million for the school, which will be located on the west side of Ohio Road, next to Route 15. With construction starting this fall, the school is expected to open its doors in January 2029. It will replace Shediac Cape School, located roughly six kilometres away. Randolph MacLean, the superintendent and CEO of Anglophone East School District, said Shediac Cape School has doubled in size in the last four years. Shediac Cape School is a kindergarten to Grade 8 school that has added 10 portable classrooms to accommodate its 565 students. The new school will be kindergarten to Grade 12 and intended for 930 students, which will also take pressure off Moncton High School. Students who travel from Shediac to Moncton High School will now be able to attend school in their own community. WATCH | New school will have capacity for more than 900 students: Goodbye portables? New Shediac school to ease student 'overpopulation' 32 minutes ago Duration 1:38 The New Brunswick government is budgeting $105M for a new K-12 school in Shediac, The province says this will allow hundreds of students who travel to Moncton for their education to stay in their home community instead. MacLean said about 400 students from Shediac are transported to Moncton High School and that the school is "bursting at the seams." "We're able to reverse that and educate students in their home community of Shediac, which is incredibly exciting," said MacLean. He said the bus ride is about an hour each way and he's excited to give that time back to students. "Now we've just given students back two hours of their lives and that time can be invested in extracurricular activities," he said. The new Shediac school will feature music, visual arts and middle school technology rooms. There will also be a theatre, computer and science labs, and vocational shops. It will also have a library, cafeteria and two gymnasiums that will be open for community use after school hours. Education Minister Claire Johnson said the school will be "surrounded by nature in a beautiful piece of land." She also said when the school is built it will be ready for more population growth. "We always plan for a little bit of projection for growth. ... we expect when it opens that we'll be able to welcome more people," said Johnson. She said the southeast New Brunswick region is the fastest growing and that Anglophone East has seen a 20 per cent increase in student enrolment since 2021. As for the current Shediac Cape School, where the announcement was made, its future use is to be determined, MacLean said. "As we get down the road and we put shovels into the ground, we'll continue that conversation." He said his district is also working on more schools. Last year, two schools were approved by the province in his region, while more in Moncton and Dieppe have been approved at the district level.
CBC
26-05-2025
- Business
- CBC
Goodbye portables? New Shediac school to ease student 'overpopulation'
The New Brunswick government is budgeting $105M for a new K-12 school in Shediac, The province says this will allow hundreds of students who travel to Moncton for their education to stay in their home community instead.
CTV News
26-05-2025
- Business
- CTV News
‘A vibrant hub of learning': Site selected for new school in Shediac, N.B.
Shediac Cape School, in Shediac, N.B., is pictured on May 26, 2025. (CTV Atlantic / Alana Pickrell) The future site of a school in Shediac, N.B., has been chosen. The new kindergarten-to-Grade-12 school will be built on the west side of Ohio Road, next to Route 15, according to a news release from the province. 'With the rapid population growth in our province in recent years, many schools in southeastern New Brunswick are either at or over capacity,' said Education and Early Childhood Development Minister Claire Johnson in the release. The new school will have a 930-student capacity, with room to grow. The government says it will replace Shediac Cape School, which was built in 1958 and renovated and expanded in 1997. It will also alleviate enrolment pressures at Moncton High School. 'I am excited that a new school in the Shediac area will not only alleviate enrolment pressures in the short term, but will provide a modern facility that will serve kindergarten-to-Grade 12 students and the wider community for generations to come,' said Johnson. The plans for the school include: music and visual arts rooms middle school technology rooms a black box theatre with stage computer and science labs vocational shops The government says a library, cafeteria and two gymnasiums will be available to the community outside of school hours. 'This new K-12 school will be a vibrant hub of learning that reflects our unwavering commitment to the four pillars that guide our work: literacy, numeracy, safe and caring schools, and graduation,' said district superintendent and CEO Randolph MacLean in the release. Construction is scheduled to start in the fall, with a total budget of $105 million. The government has allocated $25 million for the project in the 2025-26 fiscal year. The school is expected to open in January 2029. The government says several factors are considered when choosing a new school site, including: community amenities community school use catchment area accessibility of the site available utilities transportation strategies natural site conditions site size For more New Brunswick news, visit our dedicated provincial page.
CTV News
21-05-2025
- CTV News
Man suspected of breaking into Shediac home, stealing car from business: N.B. RCMP
Police are trying to identify this man after a break-in at a home and a theft from a business in Shediac, N.B., in May 2025. (New Brunswick RCMP)
