Media Release: BRSD Board Approves 2025 Capital Plan
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Battle River School Division (BRSD) Board of Trustees approved the division’s 2025 capital plan at the Board meeting on March 20, 2025. The plan has been submitted to Alberta Education for consideration by the Government of Alberta. Alberta Education requires that each school board submits its capital plan annually.
BRSD’s 2025 capital plan highlights capital plan priorities for the 2026-29 school year, including:
- W. Sears School/Tofield School: Kindergarten to Grade 12 Replacement school (prioritized modernization of C.W. Sears School since 2019)
- New Kindergarten to Grade 9 Camrose School to replace École Charlie Killam School (ÉCKS) and École Sifton School (ÉSS)
- Hay Lakes School: Modernization/Replacement school
- Kindergarten to Grade 9 addition for Chester Ronning School to replace Jack Stuart School and Sparling School
To support capital planning, BRSD has placed a strong emphasis on engaging stakeholders in meaningful conversations. Intentional discussions have been possible through value scoping sessions that have been organized to gather stakeholder feedback and perspective around the projects being planned for each community. Value scoping, a strategic pre-planning activity, has been an essential part of this process.
These informative sessions allow the division to explore facility needs, programming options and long-term solutions. Since January 2025, BRSD Board of Trustees hosted value scoping sessions in Camrose and Tofield and is currently organizing one more in the Hay Lakes community. The feedback being collected is instrumental in guiding critical capital planning decisions.
Each year, BRSD assesses capital needs throughout its buildings and prioritizes projects based on drivers outlined in the School Capital Manual. Some of the drivers that are helpful in prioritizing capital project requests are building conditions, enrolment, programming, and health and safety.
BRSD’s project list stems from priorities highlighted in the previous plan which can also be referenced in this media release published in April 2024.
BRSD’s priorities consist of replacement buildings and modernization strategies. Modernization can be used to enhance entire buildings—or part of a building—to address aging building infrastructure and to accommodate educational space and programming.
Please visit BRSD’s website to read the full 2025 capital plan.
BRSD aims to enhance quality learning environments for its students, providing an optimal learning space that aligns with its vision: Every Student, Every Day, a Success.