Frequently Asked Questions

Construction funding for Holy Trinity Academy was approved by the Government of Alberta in March of 2024. The project design phase is now complete and the project is now in tender phase. The groundbreaking is anticipated for Spring 2025. 

The new school will be located on the current St. Francis Xavier school site (318 - 8th Street N.E.) adjacent to Monsignor McCoy High School.

A new school that will serve students ELP - Grade 9, a theatre and a physical literacy space. All items requested in our Capital Plan submission have been approved for the project.

The school is anticipated to open in the 2027/2028 school year (timeline subject to change). 

St. Francis Xavier School, St. Michael’s School, St. Mary’s School will be included in the new project.

In the original Capital Plan it was stated that École St. John Paul II French Immersion students were going to be moved over to the new school building but this has now been paused. Our division enrollment experienced a significant increase over the past year, this enrollment is positive but has created space issues in a number of schools.

The Board of Trustees and Senior Administration are in the process of reviewing programming in all schools and will be looking at the current configurations of all schools in the jurisdiction. Once a decision has been made with respect to those configurations, information will be shared with all parents, including École St. John Paul II School.

Staff and students from St. Francis Xavier, St. Michael’s and St. Mary’s will join under one roof once Holy Trinity Academy construction is complete.

The remaining school buildings will be closed once students have moved to the new facility.

Students from ELP (ages 3-5) to grade 9 will have the opportunity to attend Holy Trinity Academy.

The layout of the building separates elementary (ELP - Grade 6) and middle school (grades 7-9) by having the two groups on different levels of the school.

No academies or programming will be lost in the move to the new school. We will still offer the St. FX sports academy for grades 4-6, fine arts programming for elementary, fine arts academy for middle school as currently offered. Students will have a great opportunity to participate in the various programming that is of interest to them having it all located on one campus.

Class sizes will stay about the same in the new school. There will be less opportunity for grade splits though as with more elementary students there is more opportunity for straight grade classes.

Services will be more available to students at the new location. There will be in-house school liaison counselors, CCT workers and other service providers as they don’t need to split their time traveling to different locations.

The theatre will seat 400 and be available for use by all division schools and community groups. It will be located between Monsignor McCoy High School and the new school.

All project updates can be found on our website at www.mhcbe.ab.ca/new-school-project

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