The process of consolidation of the schools in Eastern Kings began with discussions during the 1967-1968 school year and was realized in the 1969-70 school year. This saw the demise of the one-room school that taught grades 1-8 and saw these one-room schools grouped together so that each school taught only two or three grades. The district of each school changed to take in the whole area of the schools that were grouped together, so that the number of students in each school would have stayed relatively the same, but there would be fewer grades for each of the teachers to teach. This family of schools idea continued until the new school, Eastern Kings Consolidated, was built during the 1975-1975 school year 1975 and opened in the spring of 1975.

Kingsboro - grades 1-3 Lakeville - grades 1-3 South Lake - grades 1-3

East Baltic - grades 4-6 Priest Pond - grade 4-6 East Point - grade 4-6

Red Point - grades 7-8 Elmira - grades 7- 8 North Lake - grades 7-8

The grouping changed in the year 1974-1975. This change was facilitated to make for a smooth transition into the new school in the spring of 1975.

South Lake : Grade 1 and 2 -Teacher - Brenda MacGregor

Kingsboro: Grade 3 - Teacher - Nellie Rose

Lakeville: Grade 4 - Teacher - Bernadette McInnis

Lakeville: Grade 5 - Teacher - Mary Ryan

Red Point: Grade 6 - Teacher - Sinnott Mullally

North Lake: Grade 7 - Teacher - Barbara Bailey

Red Point: Grade 8 - Teacher - Barbara Baker

Principal: Eugene Hennessey

When the school groups came into effect in 1969 we also had a busing system developed to get students to their schools each day and home again in the evenings. It has seen a number of changes in routes, destinations (from the various one-roomed schools to the consolidated school) and drivers over the years but it still gets all of the students to school each day and home in the afternoons.

Bus Drivers:

Kenny Fraser 1969-1985

Alvin Rose 1969-1974

Emeric Holland 1969-1985

Douglas Morrow 1985-1993

Edgar Dixon 1974 - present

David Outhouse 1985 - present

Eastern Kings Consolidated School was located on Munn’s Road. The land for the school was purchased from Mrs. James Jardine in 1969 and the new school was built in 1974-1975.

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Waldron H. Leard