An end-of-the-month head count produced no surprises for School District 57, superintendent Brian Pepper said Friday.
As of Sept. 31, the full-time equivalent of 13,530 students were attending public schools in the district, just 25 fewer than was predicted in June.
The provincial government relies on the count on that day to determine how much funding school districts will receive for the school year.
The total represents a 210-student decline from 2009-10 and further declines are predicted in the years ahead before levelling out at about 12,500 students in 2014-15.
At each grade level, there are about 900 students from kindergarten to Grade 7, and in the secondary levels, there are about 1,100 students per grade in Grades 8, 9 and 10, and 1,450 to 1,500 in each of Grade 11 and 12.
"You can see that over the next few years, our predictions will likely come true and that is that our enrolment will continue to drop," Pepper said.
In Mackenzie, which saw significant declines in the last few years, 560 students are enroled, a roughly 30-student increase from last year, "and they're sort of spread equally between the elementary and the secondary," Pepper said.
In all, 169 students are attending the Aboriginal choice school, slightly above the 160 expected.
