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Parents of students attending Lord Beaverbrook say their high school has become a ghost town overnight, in danger of closing and losing extracurriculars while the new Joane-Cardinal Schubert High School to the south is close to overflowing.

“We’ve gone from a school where you couldn’t even cross the hallway at bell time . . . to a ghost town,” said Teresa Wyss, with one daughter who already graduated from Beaverbrook, a second daughter in Grade 11, and a son in junior high who hopes to attend there in two years.

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“My daughter says the hallways are half-empty and we wonder if the choir program, that she loves, could be gone by next year. I’m worried about the future of the school and the programs.

“It’s disappointing and very stressful. We moved into this area with the plan that all our kids would attend school here. But things keep changing.”

Since the opening of JCS in Seton this past fall, families whose kids attend Beaverbrook in Acadia say attendance there has plummeted.