Mayors Day: More portables will be needed for Surrey schools

Bad news this lunchtime if you're a student in Surrey. More portables will be needed this fall to meet the growing enrollment.

School board vice-chair Terry Allen says an extra 20 to 30 portables will be required come September. He says the cost to the district will be 10.5-million-dollars.....

Allen says student enrollment is growing on average by 12-hundred a year and right now the student body totals roughly 77-thousand.

Surrey already has 335 school portables. As well, five new schools are slated for construction and six schools are getting additions.

Bad news this lunchtime if you're a student in Surrey. More portables will be needed this fall to meet the growing enrollment.

School board vice-chair Terry Allen says an extra 20 to 30 portables will be required come September. He says the cost to the district will be 10.5-million-dollars.....

Allen says student enrollment is growing on average by 12-hundred a year and right now the student body totals roughly 77-thousand.

Surrey already has 335 school portables. As well, five new schools are slated for construction and six schools are getting additions.