École Rose-des-Vents is a Francophone school located in Greenwood, Nova Scotia operated by the Conseil scolaire acadien provincial (CSAP).
In 1971, the Canadian Forces held a survey asking military personnel the language in which they would prefer their children to be instructed, in reaction to the country's new federal policies on official bilingualism.
The survey showed that 35 dependents in CFB Greenwood were eligible for French-language education and had parents that were interested in this instruction.
This homogeneous French-language facility was originally located in two combined PMQ apartments in Clements Park that were refurbished into classrooms.
The Kings County School Board decided to continue administering École Francophone within R.C.
It was at this point where non-military francophone families were allowed to enroll their children in French.
In 1996, the Conseil scolaire acadien provincial was created and took responsibility of francophone students at R.C.
Also that year, the Nova Scotia Department of Education announced funding for a new science laboratory.
Following the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia ruling in favor of francophone parents in Doucet-Boudreau v. Nova Scotia (which then reached in Supreme Court of Canada in 2002–03, where the parents won again), all anglophone students from R.C.
[6] As in other communities such as Clare, Argyle, Isle Madame and Chéticamp, the CSAP took ownership of the building.
[7] Simultaneously, the surrounding PMQ neighbourhood Clements Park was declared a surplus by CFB Greenwood, emptied and demolished.
That same year, École Rose-des-Vents was selected the CSAP's pilot program, Grandir en français, which saw the inclusion of a Pre-Kindergarten class in the school.
Today, École Rose-des-Vents houses approximately 200 francophone students from Greenwood, Kingston, and all Annapolis Valley communities.