From the Lennoxville Academy to the Lennoxville Elementary School:
More than a Century of Education
Jean-marie Dubois (Université de Sherbrooke) and Gérard Coté (LAHMS)
Lennoxville Academy is associated with the history of anglophone primary education in Lennoxville since 1834. That is the year the Red School House opened on Main Street (Queen Street since 1953), near Warren Street. Along with another one opened in 1864 on Main Street at the corner of Maple Street, the Red School House became the Lennoxville Model School in 1879. It then became Lennoxville Academy in 1881 when it moved into the Town Hall (office of the Borough of Lennoxville since 2002). A street was opened next to Warren Street in 1906 and a new building went up on it in 1912, under the name of Lennoxville High School. That is when the street was named Academy. At the time, this street did not go further than Meade Street. The school was enlarged in 1931, including a gymnasium; again in 1952 and in 1962. In 1967, it accommodated up to 900 pupils. The students proudly wore on their school sweater the school crest with the words Flumen fundit sed constans est schola (The river flows but the school is constant). The yearbook was called The Lyre. It was only in 1969, at the time of the opening of Alexander Galt Regional High School, that the school became a primary school under the current name of Lennoxville Elementary School. In 1972, it was transferred to the Lennoxville District School Board that had taken over from the Lennoxville School Commission, established in 1871.
In 1982, the original Lennoxville Elementary School buildings of 1912 and 1931 were demolished. Since 1985, the school belongs to the Eastern Townships School Board. In 2017, the school has 286 students (77 % of which are anglophone) coming from as far as Waterville, Ascot Corner and Compton.