The reason these schools fill up is that the schools are designed for the long term poplulation of a neighbourhood and not the peak boom of kids. All of these 5 to 10 year old neighbourhoods experience this problem as people with young kids move to them.
This approach while frusterating makes a lot of sense as you don't have half empty schools 20 years from now. I perfer the approach of turning the schools into K-4's so that all of the young kids can be schooled close to home and bus the 5-9s elsewhere when they are much more able to independantly take the bus. The public system seems to take this approach whereas the Catholic system seems to want every school to be K-8/9
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