OTTAWA — A downtown elementary school is on-track for some major upheaval, as Ottawa-Carleton District School Board trustees try to find a way to deal with overcrowding.

A motion to be made tonight would move almost all English students from Elgin Street P.S. to Centennial P.S., beginning this September.

“At this week’s Committee of the Whole meeting, I will be moving a motion to move the English program to Centennial,” wrote Somerset-Kitchissippi Trustee Erica Braunovan in a Facebook post.

Braunovan’s motion would all English students, except those in Grade 6, to Centennial Public School effective this September.

An earlier plan to move only kindergarten students from Elgin Street to Centennial was scuttled after a parent argued that it would have violated provincial law, which requires all schools to offer full-day kindergarten.

Braunovan says there’s no way to know how long it would take to determine whether the board could get an exemption to the all-day kindergarten rules from the province.

“A decision cannot be postponed any longer…as overcrowding must be addressed before September,” Braunovan stressed.

Braunovan’s motion will be discussed as school board trustees meet, tonight.