Kamloops staff are in the process of looking for property to build a high school in Aberdeen.

Director of development services Marvin Kwiatkowski spoke about that subject to city council, while explaining plans for an elementary school to be built off a new extension to Pacific Way in future years.

“Finding an adequate location for a school site given the topography, you sort of run out of options. There is another site, like I mentioned, being looked at, by a developer to the west. But there’s hillside, there’s complexities,” Kwiatkowski says.

“A lot of the land up there, there’s not a lot of totally flat, easy to develop land. But we’re looking at locations that are reasonably flat. You also want it close to your main collector and arterial roadways. So that’s another consideration, having that fairly close to a main road.”

The city’s long-term goal in Aberdeen is to extend Pacific Way to Highway 5A, and build two new schools and more than 2,500 new units of housing.

The Kamloops-Thompson School District has long been calling for a new high school to be built in Aberdeen. That request is part of SD 73’s laundry list of capital funding requests for new schools.