Officials with the Calgary Board of Education announced on Thursday that at least two of their new schools, scheduled to open in September, won’t be finished in time.
Buffalo Rubbing Stone School in Panorama Hills is one of the schools that won’t be completed until at least three weeks into the school year.
Peter Lougheed School will also be delayed, but only by a few days.
The CBE says that the issues at Buffalo Rubbing Stone School were apparent right from when crews broke ground.
“Right at the very start we ended up striking some soil conditions that were unexpected, unanticipated and subsequently certainly the rain that we’ve had through this summer have not helped us at all to get this school delivered in a timely fashion,” said Dany Breton, the CBE’s superintendent of Facilities and Environmental Services.
Students that were registered to attend the school will be moved to Alex Munro or Panorama Hills School depending on what grade they’re in.
Eight other new schools are all opening on time, including the projects to modernize Bowness and Jack James High Schools.
10 schools are scheduled to open in January.
As for the students set to attend Peter Lougheed School, instead of relocating them elsewhere, the CBE is asking parents to find alternative child care for them until the school opens on September 8.
The CBE isn't the only board that will open schools late for the upcoming school year.
The Calgary Catholic School District was supposed to open two new schools, Our Lady of Grace and Prince of Peace, but the completion dates on both of those schools will also be delayed.
