A meeting is being held next month to update parents about planning and construction of schools in the Burke Mountain neighbourhood of Coquitlam.
School District 43 will host the Thursday, Nov. 9 meeting at Leigh elementary school to update parents about future plans, stated communication manager Peter Chevrier.
More details about the meeting will be posted as the date nears, he confirmed.
The meeting comes as a group of parents has organized a petition calling for planning to begin now on the middle school so that it’s ready for 2020.
The latest timeline from School District 43 shows a middle school won’t open on Burke until 2025.
But the parents say 2025 is too late for a middle school to open in their area because of census numbers showing hundreds of students moving into the area who will be middle-school age by 2020.
Approximately 1,500 signatures have been collected on the petition.
The Nov. 9 meeting is set for 7 p.m.
