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The Flin Flon School Division will host public meetings this spring to discuss how to deal with the loss of high school students from Creighton and Denare Beach. The meetings will also include discussion on the projected loss of elementary school students in the coming years. "I think we'll need to share with people information as far as what we project our enrollments will be and really look for ideas and suggestions on how we proceed in the future," said Superintendent of Schools Blaine Veitch. No final dates for the the meetings have been set, but Veitch said they will take place anywhere from mid to late March or early April. The Flin Flon School Division expects to lose about 100 high school students as a result of the Creighton high school. Flin Flon is also projected to lose about 100 elementary school students over the next five years. Those factors will mean a significant loss of funding for the division, but Veitch said the quality of education for Flin Flon students will not suffer. "We will continue to offer good quality educational programs with what we're given, with what our enrollments will be," he said. Veitch doesn't expect any significant changes to take place within the school division over the next couple of years. But "in the long-term, as the smaller (enrollment) numbers come through, there will be effects right through the system," he said.
