Interesting idea. Good case study is St. Brendan Catholic School in Edmonton. Several surrounding schools closed despite lots of community league / citizen opposition:
https://globalnews.ca/news/1362417/...oozled-over-edmonton-catholic-school-closure/
The school is now built so is a good case study for that reason.
Fulton Place (neighbourhood to north) has a school they were actually able to keep open despite plans to close it down.
Overall, a new school has positives and negatives as it means the surrounding neighbourhoods no longer have the population base and children to sustain multiple schools. This also means that with less people it is less likely to get transportation improvements, neighbourhood improvements, ect.
But for the neighbourhood that gets it, it is a positive for parents who have kids as schools build playgrounds, keep up their grounds. But it is also a lot busier which deters some others who would buy and it definitely is not generally liked by the older folks in the neighbourhood who have to fight with the new traffic.
