Ottawa Carleton District School Board

Updated: March 2, 2017

The Bell High School family included the following schools: Bayshore Public School; Bell High School; Bells Corners Public School; D. Aubrey Moodie Intermediate School; and Lakeview Public School.

The following is a summary of the final decisions made by the Board at its meeting of 1 March 2017. You can read the detailed list of changes on our website. These changes will come into effect September 2017:

• Bell High School will become a grade 7–12 school;
• D. Aubrey Moodie Intermediate School will close and current students will attend Bell High School for grades 7-12;
• Bells Corners Public School will become a JK to Grade 6 school and will continue to offer both English with Core French and Middle French Immersion;
• Lakeview Public School will become a JK to Grade 6 school and will continue to offer Early French Immersion;
• Bayshore Public School will become a JK to Grade 6 school and will offer English with Core French and will also begin offering the Early French Immersion program which will be phased in starting with grade one, and adding one grade per year; 
• the Bells Corners Public School Language Learning Disabilities (LLD) classes will continue to be located at the school, and the D. Aubrey Moodie Intermediate School Developmental Disabilities (DD) and General Learning Program (GLP) classes will be relocated to Bell High School.

Updated: Jan 27, 2017

A Summary of What We Heard Through Consultation

• Concerns from both the Lakeview PS and Bells Corners PS communities about having their children bused out of the community for their respective programs (EFI program at Lakeview PS and ENG and MFI at Bells Corners PS). Several alternate solutions were provided through the feedback: triple tracking Bells Corners PS by adding EFI; closing Lakeview PS and sending its population to D. Aubrey Moodie IS for a new JK-grade 6 EFI school; redrawing boundaries to make D. Aubrey Moodie IS a JK-grade 8 school.

• Concerns were expressed about the closure of D. Aubrey Moodie IS.

• Concerns were expressed about the implementation readiness and management of adding grade 7 and 8 students to the grade 9-12 environment at Bell HS.

This feedback led us to consider other options which are detailed in the full report.

Bell High School Family — Staff Final Recommendations

• Bell High School would become a grade 7 to 12 school effective September 2017.
• D. Aubrey Moodie Intermediate School would be closed and its grade 7 and 8 English program with Core French, Early French Immersion, and Middle French Immersion programs would be redirected to Bell High School effective September 2017.
• D. Aubrey Moodie Intermediate School Developmental Disabilities (DD) program class students would be relocated to Bell High School effective September 2017.
• D. Aubrey Moodie Intermediate School General Learning Program (GLP) class serving intermediate division students would be relocated to Bell High School effective September 2017.
• Bayshore Public School would continue to offer an English program with Core French and become a JK-grade 6 school for September 2017.
• An Early French Immersion program would be introduced at Bayshore Public School beginning with grade 1 in September 2017, one grade would be added per year thereafter, and the new program’s attendance area would be coincident with the school’s English Program with Core French boundary.
• JK and SK students attending Lakeview Public School and residing in the new Bayshore Early French Immersion program boundary area would be relocated to Bayshore Public School for September 2017.
• Lakeview Public School would continue as an Early French Immersion program with grade 6 added and would become a JK-grade 6 school for September 2017.
• The Bayshore area would be phased out of the Lakeview Public School Early French Immersion program attendance boundary as part of the introduction of a new program at Bayshore Public School beginning with JK, SK, and grade 1 for September 2017.
• Bells Corners Public School would continue to be an English and Middle French Immersion program school with grade 6 added and would become a JK–grade 6 school for September 2017.
• The Bells Corners Public School Language Learning Disabilities (LLD) program class would continue to be located at Bells Corners Public School for September 2017.

If approved, the Bell HS family of schools enrolment would change as follows:

Updated: Sept 07, 2016 - Initial Proposal

The Bell Family of Schools includes Bell High School, D. Aubrey Moodie Intermediate School, Bells Corners Public School, Bayshore Public School, and Lakeview Public School.

Currently there are 738 projected excess pupil spaces in this family of schools. The utilization rates for the three grade K–5 schools in the area vary dramatically: Bayshore Public School and Bells Corners PS have utilization rates of 46% and 58% respectively while Lakeview Public School is projected to have a utilization of 114% in 2017. The proposed plan will bring the overall utilization factor in the Bell High School family of schools from 75% to 90% (a reduction of 502 pupil spaces) and will reassign programs with higher enrolment into larger school buildings, and will minimize the number of school transitions that students have to make.

Proposed Plan for Change:

1. Bell High School would become a grade 7–12 school;
2. D. A. Moodie Intermediate School would close;
3. D. A Moodie Intermediate School grade 7 & 8 students would attend Bell High School and the grade 6 students would attend their new grade JK–6 school based on program choice;
4. Bayshore Public School would become a single track JK–6 English program site;
5. Bells Corners Public School would become a single track JK–6 EFI program site; and
6. Lakeview Public School would become a dual track JK–6 English and MFI program site.

The Bell High School family of school’s current enrolment feeding pattern BEFORE proposed changes:

The Bell High School family of school’s enrollment feeding pattern AFTER proposed changes: