Frontier School Division is the largest geographical school division in
Manitoba
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, Canada, covering most schools in northern Manitoba. With 41 schools operating across Manitoba, the Frontier School Division provides educational services to a larger geographical area than any other school division in Canada. A unique organization, the Frontier School Division operates schools in small Manitoba communities that are often only accessible by boat, air (float plane), rail, or winter ice road.
The widespread geography has necessitated that this single school division be sub-divided into five "areas", with the main division office located in
Winnipeg
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, Manitoba.
Located at the Frontier Collegiate Institute campus is the Frontier Collegiate Residence, where high school students from around Area Four and isolated communities that do not have student populations to warrant the operation of a high school program are housed in dormitories so that they may complete their secondary schooling.
In 2022, the Frontier School Division was inducted into the Canadian Fiddle Hall of Honour at the
Canadian Grand Masters
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event in Winnipeg.
Schools
See also
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List of school districts in Manitoba
This is a list of school divisions in Manitoba, and does not include locally-controlled Manitoba Band Operated Schools, which are funded and regulated by the federal Government of Canada.
The province's school divisions and districts are genera ...
*''
Our People Will Be Healed'', a 2017 documentary film about the Helen Betty Osborne Ininiw Education Resource Centre
Sources and external links Government of Manitoba - EducationFrontier School Division
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School districts in Manitoba