Catchment area shift might add 14 more pupils at Northlea

A meeting was held Monday evening at Northlea Elementary and Middle School to discuss recommendations for redrawn catchment areas for the school. The proposed changes are part of an area-wide plan produced by a body known as the Program Area Review Team (PART). Such changes are required to achieve equitable school populations. It appears that Northlea will accept students who previously would have attended Eglinton PS and Hodgson Middle School. As many as 14 such pupils are forecast in September 2019 at Northlea (see table below).. The meeting was attended by an unknown number of parents and members of the Northlea PART team. They are Barbara Sandler, Northlea principal, Arti Panday, Past-Chair, Northlea Home and School Council and Heather McCann, Parent Representative of the Home and School Council. Also present was Trustee Rachel Chernos-Lin. The meeting was closed to the media. Recommendations as published by the Toronto and District School Board.