Kingswood Elementary School located in the Kingswood subdivision of Hammonds Plains

Upper Hammonds Plains, Nova Scotia

Hammonds Plains lies at the neck of the Chebucto Peninsula along a road that runs from Bedford to the Head of St. Margarets Bay within the Halifax Regional Municipality Nova Scotia....

, Nova Scotia

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 is a non-denominational English and French Immersion

French immersion

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 institution. The school offers Primary to Grade 6 instruction and was arguably the first elementary school in the province designed for growth.

The school has 27 classrooms, 10 for French immersion, 16 for the English program and 1 for core French language instruction.
Enrollment as of 2006 was 591 students.

Kingswood Elementary School is part of the Halifax Regional School Board

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