As Waterloo Region continues to grow, Waterloo Catholic District School Board (WCDSB) has also seen significant growth. This growth is reflected in our number of kindergarten classes, which have increased from 148 to 153 in the last year alone. Interest in the WCDSB Extended Day program has also been steadily rising, leading to the introduction of a waitlist in January 2024. Due to program capacities and the ongoing shortage of Early Childhood Educators (ECEs), we had to implement caps on our programs in January 2024 and anticipated that the waitlist would remain active into September 2024.
Throughout the registration period, we have been closely monitoring our registration numbers, with the aim of raising caps wherever possible. On August 21, we increased caps in 4 programs, resulting in 52 students getting space in the Extended Day programs.
WCDSB remains committed to working towards increasing program capacity. Over the summer, we hired 24 new ECEs and will continue to actively recruit additional positions.
We will continue to review staffing and programming capacity regularly and raise caps as we can, to meet demand and move students off the waitlist.
For more information, please see our waitlist policy at the link listed below.
