Less than a week before the start of classes, students of flood ravaged Elbow Park School will be opening the school year on September 3, 2013, at a Haysboro area school which has sat dormant for nearly two years.
Elbow Park students from kindergarten through grade six will attend classe, on a temporary basis, at Eugene Coste School, located at 10 Hillgrove Cres. S.W.
According to the Calgary Board of Education, the commute between Elbow Park and Eugene Coste schools is approximately 15 – 30 minutes, and busing will be offered at no cost to families residing in the community of Elbow Park.
Parents and guardians looking to enroll students in the bus program are asked to submit transportation contracts as soon as possible.
Bus information sessions will be conducted on Wednesday, August 28 at Christ Church, 3602 8 St. S.W., at the following times:
- 9:30 a.m.
- 1:30 p.m.
- 6:30 p.m.
The decision to relocate classes to Eugene Coste was prompted by delays in the construction of portable classrooms at Earl Grey School in Mount Royal, the original planned location for housing Elbow Park students.
Once the modular classrooms at Earl Grey are complete, Elbow Park students and faculty will leave Eugene Coste school.
The future of Elbow Park School remains in jeopardy. Calgary Board of Education members are awaiting the results of insurance and engineering assessments of the building. Once the assessments are received, the board and the province will determine the school’s future.
The Calgary Board of Education had closed Eugene Coste prior to the 2011/2012 school year citing low enrollment numbers at the school prompted by the existence of another elementary school in Haysbore and the opening of a school in the community of Evergreen.
