Metis Beach School is the only English school in the Lower Saint Lawrence region. Today, students travel up to 120 km every day to attend classes as they come from the four surrounding MRCs of La Mitis, Matane, Matapedia Valley and Rimouski.
This is the fourth location in Metis to house the school, the first being in what is now Grand-Métis, to the west of Métis-sur-Mer. As the base of the population moved through time, so did the school. The original schoolhouse on this site was built in 1929. You can still see the original building at the back of the existing one. Originally built to house up to 30 students, in some years there were fewer than 10. The school now welcomes more than 75 students from Pre-Kindergarten to secondary 5, and it keeps growing.
Retired teacher and Principal, Kathy Dodson, remembers what the school was like when she first started teaching here.
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