The future of Bayview’s junior high schools is being examined.

The Toronto District School Board’s (TDSB) junior high schools, including St. Andrew’s Junior High School and Windfields Junior High School could see significant changes.

“Right now we’re looking at all sorts of different things having to do with our facilities and our programs and so the junior highs are back now on the review track,” said TDSB Ward 13 trustee Gerri Gershon.

Options include sending Grade 9 students to a high school, she said, and Grade 7 and 8 students joining an elementary school or remaining at the school, with the option of adding Grade 6 students.

More courses could be available to Grade 9 students at a high school, she said.

“St. Andrew’s and Windfields both have a healthy number of kids so they are getting good programming. Now it could be enriched, I guess, and that’s what we’re just beginning to look at now,” she said, adding a chance for community members to raise issues will preceed a decision.

St. Andrew’s parent council chair, Eddie Lok, said he feels Grade 9 students benefit more from the structure and support of a junior high school, rather than program options at a high school.

The decision should not be based on economics, he added.

“It’s not really a straight financial consideration, but a consideration for the well-being of the kids, and it’s not something that money can measure,” he said.