Future
Waterford District High School may once again face serious threats of closure by 2017 due to government cutbacks and declining enrolment; similar to the fate that Port Dover Composite School faced on January 31, 2013. While most other schools will remain open in the foreseeable future, they will see more than 1000 empty seats in their classes by 2017. Everything from homeschooling to the rapidly aging local population to the increasing popularity of virtual high schools on the Internet has stunted the ability of the Norfolk County high schools to maintain full classrooms in recent years.
If all else fails and attendance continues to decline, another solution would be to close this school along with Simcoe Composite School and create a new secular high school spanning 15 acres or 650,000 square feet somewhere in Norfolk County. Valley Heights Secondary School and Delhi District Secondary School both have the sufficient amount of students to remain open indefinitely according to their level of government funding.
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