Abbotsford and Chilliwack have some of BC’s most-crowded classrooms

Of 60 school districts across BC, Abbotsford’s classrooms were among the 5 most crowded in the province across all age ranges.

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Tyler Olsen
June 11, 2021

Chilliwack and Abbotsford have some of the most crowded high schools in BC. And while class sizes generally dipped across BC and the Fraser Valley during the pandemic compared to the year before, they did so only slightly, according to data sets posted online by the BC Government and analyzed by The Current (click to see the local data yourself).

But despite the overall decline in class size, some classes were larger than last year: Grade 4 to 7 class sizes rose in Chilliwack and Mission last year, as did average class sizes in the 8-school Fraser Cascade district, which stretches from Agassiz to Boston Bar.

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