Here's something to speculate on.
The 'city', Moncton + Riverview + Dieppe, but excluding all the rural areas in Moncton's CMA has about 120,000 people. We currently have 6 high schools (BMHS, HTHS, MHS, RHS, M-M, and l'Odyssée ) or about 1 per 20,000 people.
The city has been growing at between 2,000 and 2,500 people per year for the past half-decade.
What's going to happen when Moncton needs a 7th high school, hypothetically in 8 to 10 years? If it were to be built anywhere in the city that's closer than the new school U/C now, why would you continue to bus kids from downtown all the way out to the sticks? So who would get stuck going to Royal Oaks High?
Even if our worst fears come true, I can't see that much residential development happening north of the TCH in the next ten years to justify having a high school up there...
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