List of school districts in New Brunswick

There are 7 school districts in the province of New Brunswick, Canada. The Minister of Education in New Brunswick is currently Serge Rousselle, MLA for Tracadie-Sheila.[1]

Current School Districts

School District Headquarters Enrollment
(2012–13)[2]		 Teachers
(2012–13)[2]		 Teacher/Student
ratio
 Graduation rate
 Withdrawal rate
(2011–12)[3]
Anglophone North Miramichi 8,323 280 1/30 2.4%
Anglophone South Saint John 24,256 650 1/37 1.9%
Anglophone East Moncton 15,574 2,400 1/6 1.4%
Anglophone West Fredericton 23,802 570 1/41 1.9%
Francophone Nord-Est Tracadie-Sheila 10,334 400 1/26 1.2%
Francophone Nord-Ouest Edmundston 5,576 470 1/12 1.4%
Francophone Sud Dieppe 13,214 1,700 1/8 0.9%

History

Merging and renaming of 2012

As of September 2012, the Government of New Brunswick decided to merge and rename all the school districts changing the number of districts from 14 to 7.[4] By doing this, the provinces minister of education estimates $5 million would be saved in administrative costs.[5] This was done by merging by language, francophone and anglophone as described below:

See also

References

  1. ↑
  2. 1 2 Education Outline GNB
  3. ↑ Dropout Rate GNB
  4. ↑ Jody Carr cuts school districts to 7
  5. ↑ Halving the number of school districts would save $5 million
  6. ↑ Anglophone School Districts in New Brunswick
  7. ↑ Francophone School Districts in New Brunswick

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