New School in Langdon will Welcome Students in Grades 9 – 11 When it Opens in September 2024

The Board made the decision at its Dec. 14, 2023, regular meeting to open the new high school in Langdon for Grades 9 to 11 in the 2024/25 school year and grow to include Grade 12 students for 2025/26.

The Board of Trustees (the Board) of RVS shares in the community’s excitement and anticipation of students benefiting from learning where they live when the school opens in September 2024.

This decision was made after careful consideration of what the Board and Administration heard during an extensive public engagement with community members, both in-person and online. The input collected through the engagement expressed a broad range of opinions, scenarios and ideas on which students should attend the new school and existing schools in the area. The Board believes this decision best serves all students in the community.

The following changes also starting with the 2024/25 school year include:

• Langdon School and Indus School will become Kindergarten – Grade 8 schools. Students from both of those schools will move on to the new high school in Langdon starting at Grade 9.
• Sarah Thompson School will remain a Kindergarten – Grade 5 school. Sarah Thompson students will continue to be designated to Langdon School for Grades 6 – 8.
• High school students living in Chestermere will continue to be designated to Chestermere High School (CHS) for Grades 10 – 12.  
• Current Grade 10 students who live in the new school’s attendance area and currently attend CHS will need to apply as an out-of-area student to attend CHS for the 2024/25 school year (as Grade 11 students) with no RVS transportation guaranteed.

To begin to understand how transportation efficiencies may be best achieved with the opening of the new high school, the Board directed the Superintendent to investigate opportunities to bus Chestermere students to and from Langdon area schools starting in September 2024 and report findings to the Board Planning Committee by the end of March 2024.

The Board thanks residents of Langdon and area for participating in the public engagement and looks forward to celebrating the opening of the new school with the community next school year.