The École élémentaire Charles-Sauriol officially opened last week, the latest in the expanding French-language shool board.
The school will be the 14th elementary school in Toronto for the
Conseil scolaire Viamonde, which also operates four secondary schools in the city.
"The school board started working on this project a little more than three years ago," says Claire Francoeur, the board’s director of communications. Francoeur says that the École Pierre-Elliot-Trudeau is operating at capacity, which is what necessitated Viamonde’s purchase of the disused Catholic school formerly known as St. Josaphat at 55 Pelham Avenue in the Junction Triangle.
The school was shared this year with students from St. John the Evangelist school, some of whom learned in portables outside, until places could be found for them. There were 175 French students at
Charles-Sauriol this year, and Francoeur expects that number to rise to 200 in September, and to get up to 400 within four years.
After some general clean-up before opening last September, the school is now beginning some renovations for a daycare space, to be completed before the beginning of the next school year.
Writer: Bert Archer
Source: Claire Francoeur
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