The Anglophone West District Education Council has voted to carry out sustainability studies on McAdam Elementary School and Millville Elementary School.

The Council Chair Reverend Mark Noël said members also decided to include Nackawic's elementary, middle and high schools as part of the study of nearby Millville Elementary.

"I don't see us looking, per se, at the high school, moving it outside of that area," he said. "We could decide that the best for that region is to build one K-to-12 school, or just to bring Millville into Nackawic. So there's a variety of options and it just gives us an opportunity to look at all options."

The reviews were triggered by Policy 409, which requires a study of any school that has fewer than 100 students, or is below 30 per cent capacity. Both Millville and McAdam elementary schools have students from Kindergarten to Grade 5.

Noël said the council also asked the Minister for Education for an exemption for a number of other schools in the district that fell below Policy 409's capacity criteria.

This year, New Brunswick's four English school district education councils voted to close four schools, and merge two schools in the village of Bath.

They also voted to merge administrations in the elementary and middle schools in Stanley, and in the middle and high schools in Dalhousie.

The studies in Millville and McAdam will be carried out by January 31, 2016.