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Moncton elementary school École Saint-Henri was slated for a renovation until planners calculated it would be cheaper and faster to build a new school on the same property.
Education minister predicts new school will open in four years
Oliver Pearson · CBC News
· Posted: Apr 17, 2026 4:19 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago
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École Saint-Henri will in a new building in about four years, Education Minister Claire Johnson said Friday. (Amine Salhi/Radio-Canada)
A Moncton elementary school will be replaced instead of upgraded to save time and money, the province announced Friday.
Education Minister Claire Johnson said the idea to build a new École Saint-Henri instead of fixing up the overcrowded current school came up during the renovation planning stage.
“We realized that it is an old building and that the renovation project was going to be too costly and too complicated,” Johnson said.
Initially, $50.1 million was approved to renovate the kindergarten-to-Grade 5 school. That upgrade process started with an assessment to understand how much space the school needed.
But the assessment revealed that the upgrades would require five to six years of work and be more expensive than building a new school on the same property.
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