In great fiscal shape
The Yorkton catholic school division finished the year in the black. Wilfred Hotsko, secretary-treasurer for Christ the Teacher Roman Catholic Separate School Division, presented his fourth quarter fiscal accountability report to the Board of Education on Monday. Highlights included net assets of more than $3 million. Trustees were also pleased to learn that the mortgage for Sacred Heart High School will be paid off in January. The board accepted the report pending completion of the year-end reconciliation. Outstanding items include school tax liability statements from municipalities, accrual of grants from the Ministry of Education, completion of school-level accounting and standard year-end adjustments.
Enrolment steady
As students are settling in to their second full week of school, enrolment numbers for the catholic division are almost identical to last year. A total of 1,715 kids have enrolled compared to 1,724 in 2011-2012. While overall numbers remained steady there was some demographic shifting internally. Sacred Heart High School saw the largest decline in enrolment going from 387 students last year to 348 this year, a drop of more than 10 per cent. The biggest increase was seen at St. Henry's Junior where overall enrolment is up more than 20 per cent and the French immersion program ballooned by one-third. Home-based schooling is down by almost 60 per cent, but that may not be statiscally significant since the actual number of home-schooled kids was only seven to begin with.
Big math win
Five students at Yorkton Regional High School aced an international exam in the first year the school participated. Matthew Tripp, Justine Berlinic, Brandi Neibrandt, Brandon Campbell and Caleb Friedrick all scored a perfect five out of five on the Advanced Placement Calculus AB Exam, which is written by more than a quarter of a million students worldwide. Students who score four or five on the test, may be granted a first year calculus credit at most Canadian and American universities.
