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Riverdale High School is not the only English school in the West Island with low student enrolment.

Many elementary and high schools in the Lester B. Pearson School Board are also struggling to keep their numbers up.

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In fact, the only school operating at higher than capacity was Dorset Elementary in Baie-D’Urfé with 319 students in a school with capacity for 286.

But the picture is not as rosy elsewhere, according to forecasted enrolment figures from Lester B. Pearson School Board’s three-year allocation plan for 2018-21. (Forcasted figures are approximate. Actual enrolment numbers for this year could vary.)

Lindsay Place High School in Pointe-Claire has room for 1,375 students but only had 462 students forecasted for the 2018-19 year, according to the LBPSB.

That number is expected to decline to 400 students by 2020-21, depending on where all the Riverdale students are transferred.