The Thames Valley District School Board (TVDSB) approved attendance area changes for the Adelaide Metcalfe and Strathroy-Caradoc Attendance Area Review (AMSCAAR) on May 23, 2025.

The purpose of AMSCAAR was to balance enrolment across schools, decrease reliance on portables and shorten travel times for students.?The?review?also strengthens TVDSB’s business case to the Ministry of Education for a planned new school in the Strathroy area.??? 

The soonest the Board would implement any attendance area changes would be September 2026.

TVDSB is grateful to the attendance area review committee for their input and recommendations.

Please see below for a list of approved recommendations. You can also visit www.tvdsb.ca/AMSCAAR.

THAT the attendance areas for Caradoc North PS, Mary Wright PS, North Meadows PS, Adelaide-W.G. MacDonald PS, and the new Strathroy elementary school as shown in Appendix A to the April 8, 2025 report titled “Adelaide Metcalfe and Strathroy-Caradoc Elementary Panel Attendance Area Review: Final Attendance Area Review Report” be approved and that this take effect September 2026 and once a new school in Strathroy opens, per the phasing in Appendix A; and 

THAT students who will be in Grade 8 in the year of implementation of each phase of the attendance area changes and their siblings be provided with the “legacy agreement option” to remain at their current school, with transportation (if eligible), for the duration of the school year of implementation.