Light of Christ sees more funding for higher enrolment
The Light of Christ Catholic School Division finished 2017 with some good news – an increase in provincial funding of just over $300,000 to reflect its higher enrolment.
Chief financial officer Jordan Kist said at Tuesday’s board meeting the division made a “conservative” enrolment projection for the current school year, and its actual registered enrolment numbers at the end of September came in higher, which translates into more per-student funding dollars from the province.
“Our actual enrolment increased by 47 students, full-time equivalencies, roughly,” he said. “It was fairly close, but we actually had more students than we had anticipated in January of 2017.”
Kist said the division projected about 1,900 students and came in with 1,948 pupils in the actual enrolment numbers for the division overall.