The Sooke school district is growing so quickly they've asked the Education Ministry to approve four new schools-three elementary and one middle school.
Superintendent Jim Cambridge says the district doesn't expect to get four schools in one year because he understands the ministry has lots of competing pressures throughout the province and that other districts are also growing.
Cambridge told CTV Vancouver Island the difference in Sooke is that growth is "exponential":
“From last September to this December we have had 520 more students come to our school district. Last year was about 400 hundred students so almost a thousand students in two years so that has moved us from nine thousand to 10,000 pretty rapidly.”
Cambridge says Sooke is fortunate that it has two new schools, and has moved in portables that were used during last year's seismic upgrade at Dunsmuir School.
He says he doesn't expect all schools to be approved at once, adding the first order of business is to acquire land, which they are currently looking for.