Not much change for the Foothills School Division's budget for next year compared to this year.

Superintendent John Bailey says the provincial government didn't cut education spending in its last budget, which is good news for Foothills.

Bailey says the province will fund enrolment growth.

"We're projecting really , pretty flat enrolment, and of course most of our funding is dependent on enrolment, and that's just because of the state of the economy, it's very hard for us to predict what our enrolment will be but we have been growing the last number of years in Foothills and we're saying this year we'll probably be about the same student enrolment next year that we are this year," Bailey says.

There won't be any changes in school fees, just as there hasn't for the last several years. Bailey says they've been able to hold the line and keep the fees lower, and in some cases much lower than in some other school divisions.

Bailey says the carbon tax will hit the division to a certain extent.

"The carbon levy, is a bit of a concern, it's not going to break our budget or anything but we're estimating, and this is based on their (Alberta government) April numbers, and since then the province has come out and said these numbers will be a little higher, we don't know what that is yet, we're estimating next school year that will cost us approximately $53,000," Bailey says. "But we've also received increased IMR funding which is for our building maintenance funding, so we actually received about $1.2 million in increased funding for that."

He says there will be no cutbacks in teaching positions although they've changed the allocation model giving schools more say in what their needs are taking their needs into consideration. Some support staff numbers have decreased but there are increases in other areas.