Roosevelt Park Elementary is a public

Elementary School A primary school (in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and South Africa), junior school (in Australia), elementary school or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary ed ...

Prince Rupert, British Columbia Prince Rupert is a port city in the province of British Columbia, Canada. Its location is on Kaien Island near the Alaskan panhandle. It is the land, air, and water transportation hub of British Columbia's North Coast, and has a population of 12, ...

, part of

School District 52 Prince Rupert School District 52 Prince Rupert is a school district in British Columbia, serving the communities of Prince Rupert, Port Edward, Metlakatla, and Hartley Bay (the Gitga’at First Nation), which are within the territory of the Ts’msyen Nation ...

. Because it was the lowest ranked school in British Columbia in 2005, Roosevelt Park Elementary was featured in a CBC documentary hosted by

Mark Kelley Mark Kelley is a Canadians, Canadian television journalist, associated with CBC News. Formerly a correspondent and substitute anchor for ''CBC News: The National, The National'' and a host of ''CBC News: Morning'', he hosted ''Connect with Mark ...

.http://www.cbclearning.ca/CBCEDS/shopping/product.aspx?CatalogName=CBCEDSBase&CategoryName=education_all_education_titles&Product_ID=Y8Q-06-03&Variant_ID=Y8Q-06-03-010101# It has not ranked that low since that date. In 2009, Roosevelt enrolled 189 students in kindergarten through grade 7. In the 2011–2012 school year, Roosevelt Park Elementary began hosting the French Immersion Program along with the previous English program. It was also changed, along with all the other elementary schools in Prince Rupert, to a K-5 elementary school, with grades 6 to 8 heading to the area's middle school, Prince Rupert Middle School (PRMS).

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Roosevelt Park Elementary School
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