Dec 11, 2024 – Abby Luciano/North Shore News

Excavators and trucks moved gravel and dirt Wednesday afternoon as construction is underway for a new elementary school in North Vancouver’s Cloverley neighbourhood.

Local and provincial politicians as well as school district trustees went on a walking tour of the construction site Wednesday to announce the progress of the new Cloverley Elementary.

“We have incredible growth in terms of the number of families that are choosing to make North Shore home,” Bowinn Ma, minister of infrastructure and MLA for North Vancouver-Lonsdale, said after the tour.

“And with that growth comes additional needs. This school is part of our government’s continued commitment to investing in the infrastructure that communities need.”

The old Cloverley Elementary closed as a public school in 1982, sitting mostly empty over the following decades. The new school is expected to hold more than twice the capacity of the old school. The new Cloverley Elementary is being built on the eastern side of the former school site and will seat 585 students from kindergarten to Grade 7. The new school will also include a neighbourhood learning centre with 50 before-and after-school spaces and a 37-space childcare facility.

The province has provided $61 million for the school, with the North Vancouver School District contributing an additional $3 million. The childcare facility will cost $7.2 million, with the province funding $3.7 million and the City of North Vancouver contributing $3.5 million.

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