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As public high school populations become increasingly unbalanced — with suburban schools overflowing and some in the inner city sitting half empty — the Calgary Board of Education is launching its high school engagement process to get feedback on how to rebalance the system.

A short online survey will be open, starting today until June 9, asking parents and students how they want to be informed during the engagement and what their initial priorities are around changing boundaries, programming choices and extracurricular activities.

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The CBE hopes to collect the initial information before it launches a series of in-person sessions. Public engagement would take two years until May 2021, but changes won’t be implemented until September 2022.

Of the CBE’s 20 high schools, it’s estimated that within the next five years 10 high schools will be operating at 100 to 150 per cent of capacity, while seven schools will be operating at 50-85 per cent of capacity.