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Originally Posted by calgarygeologist
It is guaranteed that the Calgary board tracks classroom sizes internally because those metrics and trends are absolutely necessary for enrollment, lotteries, staffing and other decisions. Those metrics also are needed for growth plans and capital allocations. The board just doesn't report those numbers to the general public.
There is some information that can be found through the board which can be interesting such as their school enrollment report which provides a school by school, grade by grade breakdown of students. I was just looking at it and was surprised to see that the high school my kid goes to is only at 86% of capacity while the high school 4km away is at 119%.
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That kind of leans into my point. EBE goes out of their way to provide information and transparency so that we are not out here guessing. CBE might have the same data but they keep it hidden.
Considering they are the two bigs of the public education system in the province, it makes you wonder why CBE seems to come up lacking while EBE is willing to trailblaze or even stand up to the government.
As for the school allocations... it really sounds like they need to throw out the current method of determining that and go to an advanced AI solution that can go into the level of detail that the current high-level rules are failing to add value (and in many ways are detracting value to parents).