Surrey absorbs up to 1,000 new citizens a month over the last decade

This article is from The Province

Surrey’s population exploded between 2006 and 2011, jumping almost 20 per cent, or about three times the provincial average, according to the latest census.

And most of the growth came from immigration, which is a boon to English-as-a-second-language schools, said Michelle Lee at the SUCCESS Training Insitute, which has takes in students from China, Korea, the Punjab, Eastern Europe and Arabic-speaking countries.

The five classes the school offered five years ago have tripled to 15 classes in the morning, afternoon and evening, catering to 250 students on any given day.